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Youth & Families Worker @litchardmission | Medieval History Grad | Writing about women in Church History #NotJustWivesAndMothers
Oct 22, 2021 13 tweets 4 min read
Before #ReformationDay next week, I'll be sharing 4 profiles of Reformation women! This year the focus will be why women were either not able to be involved in the Reformation or why their involvement was later forgotten in our retelling of these events.
The 4 women will be... Olympia Morata died #OTD in 1555. She grew up a child prodigy specialising in the classics, and later became an accomplished Renaissance scholar. But her involvement in the Reformation inadvertently led to the destruction of her work and the ending of her life.(1/12) Image