Olympia Fulvia Morata
Olympia Fulvia Morata was a 1500s Italian scholar, poet, and writer who sought to advance the Protestant Reformation in Italy.
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Egeria
Egeria (also known as Etheria, l. c. 380s) was a Christian traveler and writer known only from her work Itinerarium. Based on the text, she was a woman of the upper class who went on pilgrimage to significant sites mentioned in the Bible. She traveled through the regions of modern-day Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and back to the region of Anatolia.
Katharina von Zimmern
Katharina von Zimmern (l. 1478-1547) was the abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zürich for 30 years and the last before the monasteries were dissolved.
Hilda of Whitby
Northumbrian princess Hilda of Whitby (also known as Saint Hilda of Whitby, l. 614-680 CE) was the founder and abbess of the monastery at Whitby, Kingdom of Northumbria, Britain.
Anna Adischwyler
Anna Adischwyler (also known as Anna Bullinger, l. c. 1504-1564) was the wife of the reformer Heinrich Bullinger who succeeded Zwingli as head of the Reformed Church in Zürich after the latter’s death in 1531.
Argula von Grumbach
Argula von Grumbach was a Bavarian theologian, writer, and reformer, who became a controversial figure after her 1523 letter To the University of Ingolstadt protesting the arrest of a young scholar for teaching Lutheran precepts.
Oracle of Nuska
The Oracle of Nuska was an unnamed enslaved girl who became embroiled in a plot to overthrow Esarhaddon circa 671 BCE.
Saint Marcella
Saint Marcella (l. 325-410) was a wealthy Roman Christian woman who, after her husband’s death, devoted herself to her faith through a life of chastity and service to others.
Amenirdis I
Amenirdis I (714-700 BCE) controlled Thebes through her position as God’s Wife of Amun and effectively ruled Upper Egypt.
Ende
It is well-established that, by the 13th century, women were involved in book production as scribes, illustrators, and illuminators of manuscripts, but Ende’s work makes clear that women were involved in this process as early as the 10th century.