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What impact did the protestant reformation have on women?
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WHAT IMPACT DID THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION HAVE ON WOMEN? The Christian West of the sixteenth century was in a state of religious uproar. The Italian renaissance had sparked a return to the roots that sooner or later began to affect European culture as a whole. As religion was the overbearing influence in politics and daily civilian life at the time, calls for reform to the double standards and corruption of the papal system and catholic ideals were an inevitable part of the 'new dawn'. Though not the first or the most radical to answer these calls, Martin Luther would meet them with a intensity that over the century tear the church apart and lead 1/3 of Europe's population to forsake papal dominance.1 Changes in religious principles were swift and many. The new protestant church shed saints and rituals like feathers, but still remained true to some catholic principles. The Bible was open...
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