Who started the Protestant Reformation?
Women in the Protestant Reformation Women in the Protestant Reformation The status of women in the Protestant Reformation was the role of wife and mother, just as the men's role was that of husband, father, or son. A wife was expected to be a companion to her husband, but she was always his subordinate. Obedience was demanded by husbands, and women were restricted in their actions. There were some women during the Reformation who were not as restricted as other women. Katharina von Bora who married the well known reformer Martin Luther set the standard of more roles given to a pastor's wife. She was
Art in the Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation churches, and suspicious of small printed images of religious subjects, though generally fully accepting secular images in their homes. In turn, the Catholic Counter-Reformation both reacted against and responded to Protestant criticisms of art in Roman Catholicism to produce a more stringent style of Catholic art. Protestant religious art both embraced Protestant values and assisted in the proliferation of Protestantism, but the amount of religious art produced in Protestant countries was hugely reduced. Artists in Protestant countries diversified into secular forms of art like history painting, landscape painting, portrait painting and still life. The Protestant Reformation was a religious movement