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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?
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