TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dentière,Marie
AU  - McKinley,Mary B.
AU  - Dentière,Marie
TI  - Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre: and, Preface to a sermon by John Calvin 
T2  - Other voice in early modern Europe
SN  - 9780226142753 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BX9422.3 .D4613 2004eb
U1  - 284/.2 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - Reformed Church
KW  - Apologetic works
KW  - Women's clothing
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Women
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Calvinist
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reformatie
KW  - gtt
KW  - რელიგია--
KW  - კათოლიკური ეკლესია
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-105) and index
N2  - Born to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Dentière (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform. She married a former priest and with her husband went to Switzerland, where she was active in the Reformation's takeover of Geneva. Dentière's Very Useful Epistle (1539) is the first explicit statement of reformed theology by a woman to appear in French. Addressed to Queen Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the French king Francis I, the Epistle asks the queen to help those persecuted for their religious beliefs. Dentière offers a stirring defense of women and asserts their r
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