... reformation. The protestant reformers demanded clerical marriage and stood against the old style of monasticism and celibate life. They challenged the medieval tendency to degrade women as temptresses and to exalt them as virgins (following the model of Mary). They praised woman in her own right, but especially their traditional vocation as mother and housewife. Even new marriage laws began to bloom ... available to women. But renegade nuns wrote stories about their nunneries and the miserable lives they had when living there. According to them a nunnery was not at all a place for a wom...

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