The contributions of women to the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648) were frequently marginalized in the past but have gained wider recognition in the present era. Many women played important roles in spreading the new vision of Christianity either through their own efforts or in support for their husbands or other reformers.
The following collection presents only a few of the many women who contributed to the cause of advancing the Reformation as well as a famous example of Catholic Counter-Reformation literature, Jeanne de Jussie’s Short Chronicle of 1535, and Catherine de' Medici who opposed the movement.
