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King’s sister, queen of dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her evangelical network

November 7, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Marguerite de Navarre - Statue of Marguerite of Angoulême, in the gardens of the city hall of Angoulême

This study reconstructs the previously unknown history of the most important dissident group within France before the French Reformed Church formed during the 1550s.

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An Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy

September 8, 2011 By Medievalists.net

An Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy Webb, Val (Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN) Sea Changes, Vol.1 (2001) Abstract I met Olympia Morata in the British Library while searching for women lost from history. My search word ‘heroine’ uncovered an 1864 inspirational collection Heroines of the Household. Olympia was the […]