It was interesting to me the emphasis on obedience in these different texts, requiring obedience of both wives and subjects. The Book of Homilies made rebellion into a sacrilege, I assume because Cranmer was significantly worried about the threat of it. It seems then that the reason obedience was emphasized for wives may have also been for similar reasons–perhaps obedience for women was such a focus in part because men were worried what would happen if they were to rebel?