Argula von Grumbach was, for a brief time, an important voice in the debate over the Reformation; she was also one of few women to express an opinion on contemporary events through the new medium of print. Her participation, for about a year, in the pamphlet wars of the time brought her popularity with supporters of the new teaching and notoriety with its opponents. That her first publication--a denunciation of the Ingolstadt University theological faculty's treatment of a young colleague with pro-Reformation leanings--was inspired by a local event with an identifiably human element, rather than by abstract principle, is typical of the way women participated in the debate. That in her subsequent publications she addressed more far-ranging issues, even taking it upon herself to instruct rulers in their business, establishes Grumbach's place in a long tradition of women who justified their interference in the affairs of men by...