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, Margar...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Gertz, Genelle, Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400-1670] (2015) (Baez, H. Beau)
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| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language
/ Feminine literature
/ Bekenntnisdichtung
/ History 1400-1670
/ History 1400-1670
B England / Inquisition proceedings |
| Further subjects: | B
English literature
Women authors
History and criticism
B Trials (Heresy) (Great Britain) History |
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| Summary: | "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 writing, preaching and authorship under religious persecution and censorship. Archival sources illuminate not only the literary choices women made, showing how they wrote to justify their teaching even when their authority was questioned, but also their complex relationship with male interrogators. Women's speech was paradoxically encouraged and constrained, and male editors preserved their 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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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis S. 227 - 251 |
| ISBN: | 110701705X |