Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400–1670 - Genelle Gertz

Heresy Trials and English Women Writers, 1400–1670

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Buch | Hardcover
270 Seiten
2012
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-01705-4 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
By analyzing the interrogations of Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Marian Protestant women, Margaret Clitherow and Quaker women, Genelle Gertz examines the complex dynamics of women's writing, preaching and authorship under religious persecution and censorship and uncovers unexpected connections between the writings of women on trial for their religious beliefs.
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.

Genelle Gertz is Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University, Virginia and teaches courses on medieval and early modern literature.

Introduction: articulating women; 1. 'Belief papers and the literary genres of heresy trial'; 2. 'Confessing Margery Kempe, 1413–38'; 3. 'Recanting and rewriting Anne Askew, 1540–6'; 4. 'Sanctifying ploughmans' daughters and butchers' wives: the interrogations of Alice Driver, Elizabeth Young, Agnes Prest and Margaret Clitherow, 1555–86'; 5. 'Exporting inquisition: Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers at Malta, 1659–63'; Conclusion: visionaries, non-conformists and the history of women's trial writing.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.6.2012
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 234 mm
Gewicht 530 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-107-01705-X / 110701705X
ISBN-13 978-1-107-01705-4 / 9781107017054
Zustand Neuware
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