
Heresy Trials And English Women Writers, 1400-1670
This book charts the emergence of women's writing from the procedures of heresy trials and recovers a tradition of women's trial narratives from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Analyzing the interrogations of Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Marian Protestant women, Margaret Clitherow, and Quakers Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, the book examines the complex dynamics of women's writ...
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (March 5, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781107507593
ISBN-13: 978-1107507593
ASIN: 1107507596
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 544297
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ng, preaching, and authorship under separate regimes of religious persecution and censorship. Archival sources illuminate the literary choices women made, showing how they wrote to justify their teaching even when male co-religionists would not have accepted their authority. Interrogators paradoxically encouraged and constrained women's speech; correspondingly, male editors preserved women's writing while shaping it to their own interests. This book challenges conventional distinctions between historical and literary forms while identifying a new tradition of women's writing across Catholic, Protestant and Sectarian communities and the medieval/early modern divide.
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