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Period: Sep 12, 1300 to Sep 12, 1399
German Schools Established
Speyer, Bern, Regensburg, Mainz, Zurich, Frankfurt Shortly after: Augsburg, Nuremburg, Emmerich -
Sep 12, 1400
GERMANY: Convents still heavily involved in education
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Sep 12, 1445
Emmerich hires 2+ women teachers
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Sep 12, 1456
Überlingen: teacher charged for every male student
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Sep 12, 1499
ITALY: Women of lower orders unchanged since Renaissance
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Period: Sep 12, 1500 to
Widespread establishment of girls' schools
Hamburg, Luebeck, Bremen, Pomerania, Schleswig-Holstein, Württemburg -
Sep 12, 1528
Catechism written
by Johann Agricola, "One Hundred and Fifty-Six Questions for Young Children in the German School for Girls in Eisleben" -
Sep 12, 1528
Brunswick: First school for girls established
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Sep 12, 1533
Wittenburg school established
by Elsa von Kaunitz, in Luther's hometown -
Sep 12, 1535
ITALY: Order of Ursulines established
At Brescia, by St. Angea Merici -
Sep 12, 1536
Geneva: order that all children attend school
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Sep 12, 1541
Geneva: Separate elementary girls' schools established
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Period: Sep 12, 1560 to Sep 12, 1569
28% of women could sign their names
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Memmingen: prizes begin to be awarded
due to her "great diligence and application in learning her catechism, modesty, obedience, and excellent penmanship" -
12-13% of all girls were literate
33% of boys -
Frankfurt: total of twenty small schools established
Half of them were taught by women -
Period: to
Prevalence of Counter-Reformation schools
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FRANCE: Ursuline Convents erected
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SWEDEN: All peasant children could read and write
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Goals of schools reformed
Main objective: for girls to learn Christian teachings and religion from the catechism, and be able to recite this on command (in school, church, or other) -
Württemburg: elementary school made obligatory for all children
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FRANCE: Girl prohibited from continue studying Latin
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ENGLAND: Fifteen boarding schools established
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14% of wives could sign marriage contracts
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95% of population was literate (men, maybe women)
