Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 17, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780415181488
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Christianity; Education; Social history; Women's studies; Sociology of Religion; General; Education Of Women; Religious Education (General); History - General History; Religion; England; History; Christian Education - General; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / General; Women; Christian education of girls
First sentence: A society concerned (to an almost obsessive degree) with religion and, most immediately, with the scriptural basis of that religion not surprisingly turned first and foremost to the scriptures for statements about the nature of women, from, which it would be possible to justify claims about women's status in society and an education deemed appropriate to that status (albeit in a society wit a male Godhead, a male Saviour and a male priesthood, and in a society largely governed by men).