ATLAS / WORLD HISTORY IN PICTURES

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Jost Amman, printers and typesetters,[1568]. This later woodcut depicts printing labor, not Argula von Grumbach, Katharina Zell or their particular printers.
Picture source & rightsWellcome Collection ·34964i · Public Domain Mark · Full supplied sheet retained; proportionally reduced and encoded as WebP · Licence terms

Europe / Faith

Women, schools and printed arguments

Selected German-speaking cases connect women’s religious arguments, civic proposals for schooling and the material lives of pamphlets. They reveal specific acts of participation rather than a uniform transformation of everyday life.

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