TY - BOOK ID - 18194960 TI - The Holy Household : women and morals, in reformation Augsburg PY - 1989 SN - 0198217692 0198202806 0191675520 9780198202806 PB - Oxford : Clarendon Press, DB - UniCat KW - Reformation KW - Women KW - Influence. KW - Conduct of life KW - History KW - Social conditions. KW - Morale pratique KW - Christian church history KW - History of civilization KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Augsburg KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Protestant Reformation KW - Church history KW - Counter-Reformation KW - Protestantism KW - Influence KW - Social conditions KW - ReĢforme (Christianisme) KW - Femmes KW - Histoire KW - Conditions sociales KW - Germany [West ] KW - Augsburg (Germany) KW - 16th century KW - Women - Germany - Augsburg - Social conditions. KW - Women - Germany - Augsburg - Conduct of life - History - 16th century. KW - Reformation - Influence. KW - Femmes et religion KW - Augsbourg KW - Leon xiii, pape (giacchino pecci), 1810-1903 KW - Reforme KW - Allemagne KW - 16e siecle UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18194960 AB - This is a fascinating study of the impact of the Reformation idea of "civic righteousness" on the position of women in Augsburg. Roper argues that its development, both as a religious credo and as a social movement, must be understood in terms of gender. Until now the effects of the Reformation on women have been viewed as largely beneficial--Protestantism being linked with the forces of progressivism, individualism, and modernization. Roper here argues that such a view of the Reformation's legacy is a profound misreading, and that the status of women was, in fact, worsened by the Reformation. A number of themes are explored: the economic position of women in the household economy; the nature of "civic righteousness" and how it applied a "reform moralism" to the role of marriage and the household; the efforts of civic authority to reform sexual deviance; the attempts to control marriage and the breakdown of marriage; and the role of convents and nuns. The Holy Household is the first scholarly account of how the Reformation affected half of society. It combines sound application of feminist theory with careful, open-ended archival research to advance our understanding of the Reformation, of feminist history, and of the place of women in modern European society. ER -