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Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine.

The histories of religious reformations across the globe have often focused on men.

But women were also integral to these major transformations.

Speaking with Emily Briffitt, historian Mary Wiesner-Hanks, author of Women and the Reformation,

explains how early modern women strove to shape the world around them as wives, mothers, missionaries,

mystics and migrants.

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast, Mary. It's lovely to have you.

Oh, it's wonderful to be here.

So we are going to be delving into the reformations. And when it comes to the reformations,

we so often talk about those in Europe, but this isn't just a European transformation.

Introduce us to its global history, where in the world saw a

reformation? Well, anywhere Christianity expanded. And I think that we sometimes forget,

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