Protestant Women's Voices 1

As recently as 1989, Sherrin Marshall saw her collection Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe as innovative, because it ‘was written in the belief that history profits from being rewritten and revised – this time from the viewpoint and experience of women rather than men’. She and her contributors proposed to ‘let … the women speak for themselves, rather than allowing men to speak for them’. ² Since the 1980s, similar research has led to the identification, edition and study of a remarkable number and variety of previously neglected texts recording Protestant women’s speech and thought. ³