AHC: A More Feminist Protestant Reformation

Here were some important and influential women in the early years of the Reformation, who were in the main ex-nuns and/or noblewomen who sponsored male preachers, or their wives. I can't think of any such figures in the foolowing generations, between around 1560 and 1660.

Much of the appeal of the Reformation (for men) can I think be expressed in the phrase "every man his own Pope" which leaves women with the role of the obedient Mother Church.

What would need to change to give a continuing place for educated and not necessarily married women?
 

Philip

Donor
Every man his own priest. Neither Luther nor Calvin accept the implications of 'every man his own pope'.
 
Killing off most of the men in war.

Far more likely to result in a disasterious and difficult to reverse regional economic collapse where there isent sufficent resources to educate much of anybody. No way a single mother can sustain anything resembling a decent number of children in a war-destroyed environment with no source of outside succor while also investing her younger years into getting trained, playing an active role in politics and philosophy, ect. (Also taking into account the attrition rate of death in childbirth and to illness), which only agrivates the problem as you get demographic collapse.
 
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