In his article, “Women in the 16th Century,” Jens Christian Kirk argues that women played a vital part in the fight for religious freedom during the Reformation and that it was period in which they could express themselves. He states that “no century contained as much religious disorder in Western Europe as the 16th century,” and later said noble women’s impact was through influencing their families in power. According to Kirk, the women who had more impact in the Reformation did so because of their social status, if they were of nobility they had more of a voice and were more likely to be literate. An “ordinary” women would have played her part through writing, Kirk argues that “the Reformation opened a window of opportunity for women to express
