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Educated Women in Pre-Modern Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Penelope D. Johnson*
Affiliation:
New York University

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Copyright © 1984 by History of Education Society 

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Notes

1. There is a good deal of evidence for this view, see, for example, Herlihy, David, “Land, Family and Women in Continental Europe, 701–1200,” Traditio 18 (1962), 89120, reprinted in Women in Medieval Society , ed. Stuard, Susan (Philadelphia: 1976).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2. Janeway, Elizabeth, “Who is Sylvia? On the Loss of Sexual Paradigms,” Signs 5 (1980), 576.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3. The University of Zürich first admitted women as full matriculants in 1864, followed by Sweden in 1870, and Paris and Finland in 1871. Although women had been allowed to study in English universities since 1849, they were not allowed to sit for examinations until 1865 and only received degreees in the twentieth century.Google Scholar