@article{kzm 72032, author = {Nina Valkeneers, Violet Soen}, title = {Praet, Bronkhorst en Boetzelaer: Adellijke weduwes in de bres voor het calvinisme tijdens en na de Beeldenstorm (1566-1567)}, volume = {69}, year = {2015}, url = {https://openjournals.ugent.be/kzm/article/id/72032/}, issue = {0}, doi = {10.21825/kzm.v69i0.17538}, abstract = {<p>Recently, historiography on early modem France has established the crucial role<br>of noblewomen - and particularly of no bie widows - in propagating the Calvinist<br>Faith during the sixteenth-century Wars of Religion. This article unravels this very<br>same phenomenon for the Habsburg Low Countries, concentrating on the eve and<br>the aftermath of the Iconoclastic Fury in the year 1566. After the death of their husbands,<br>the related noblewomen Petronella van Praet-Moerkerken, Catharina van Bronckhorst-<br>Batenburg and Catharina van Boetzelaer became influential and instrumental in<br>spreading Calvinism in their dominions, even when the Habsburg government took specific<br>measures to prohibit their support for the 'new religion' and tried to interfere in the<br>seigniorial administration. The Iconoclastic Fury certainly enabled these three noblewomen<br>to perform activities which were not normally ascribed to their gender, such as<br>offering shelter for coreligionists and organizing religious resistance and even iconoclasm.<br>Compared with their spouses and male siblings defending their confession in<br>leagues and battles, however, their action radius as women seems to have been confined<br>chiefly to the limits of their lordships.</p>}, month = {1}, pages = {265-284}, issn = {2736-2175}, publisher={Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis}, journal = {Handelingen - Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse maatschappij voor taal- en letterkunde en geschiedenis} }