Reformation Movements in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries explores how Protestant women across Europe engaged with the Bible, rather than prioritizing how male Reformers viewed women. Contributors consider women as readers, interpreters, and sharers of scripture who encountered biblical texts in their own languages, in devotional texts, and in hymns. Although many available sources derive from and address elite women, the articles collected here show that women from across the social spectrum and in locations from Scotland to Sweden to Bohemia engaged with scripture and with their faith. Contributors include Federica Ambrosini, Sarah Apetrei, Otfried Czaika, Genelle Gertz, Sr. Nicole Grochowina, Andrea Hofmann, Nathan Hood, András Korányi, Raffaella Malvina La Rosa, Pierre-Olivier Léchot, Elsie Anne McKee, Peter Matheson, Charlotte Methuen, Eivor Andersen Oftestad, Stefania Salvadori, Douglas H. Shantz, Rachel K. Teubner, Gyöngyi Varga, Lothar Vogel, and Katharina Will.

Charlotte Methuen is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Glasgow. She is co-editor of Studies in Church History, and the author of Luther and Calvin: Religious Revolutionaries (2011) and Science and Theology in the Reformation: Studies in Theological Interpretation and Astronomical Observation in Sixteenth-Century Germany (2008).

Gury Schneider-Ludorff is Professor of Church History and History of Doctrine at the Augustana-Hochschule in Neuendettelsau. She is the author of Magdalene von Tiling: Ordnungstheologie und Geschlechterbeziehungen (2001) and Der fürstliche Reformator: Theologische Aspekte im Wirken Philipps von Hessen von der Homburger Synode bis zum Interim (2008).

Lothar Vogel is Professor of Church History at the Waldensian Faculty of Theology in Rome. He is the author of Vom Werden eines Heiligen: Eine Untersuchung der Vita Corbiniani des Bischofs Arbeo von Freising (2000).