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Article: Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England.
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- Church History
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- March 1, 2001
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Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England. By Kenneth Charlton. New York: Routledge, 1999. ix + 332 pp. $65.00 cloth.
In an era when book titles tend toward the snazzy and uninformative, Kenneth Charlton is to be commended for providing one that exactly summarizes his book's contents. This is a study of the intersection among the three initial nouns in the title, of the ways in which women received and provided religious education in early modern England, the ways in which religion shaped the total education of girls and women (and to some degree boys and men), and the ways in which education served the needs of both women and religious institutions. ...