Choose three writers from the Middle Ages to the end of the 1600s and examine the ways religion and the church intersect their lives.

Choose three writers from the Middle Ages to the end of the 1600s and examine the ways religion and the church intersect their lives. They may be writers who follow the dominant religion or find themselves at odds with their society. Consider the ways religion shapes them, shapes their voice, and determines their paths as writers and as women. In what ways are their lives transformed by their religion? In what ways are they empowered by their religious beliefs when compared to other women of the time?