Heresy trials and English women writers, 1400-1670 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gertz, Genelle
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Trials (Heresy) > Great Britain > History. English literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : articulating women
Belief papers and the literary genres of heresy trial
Confessing Margery Kempe, 1413-1438
Recanting and rewriting Anne Askew, 1540-1546
Sanctifying ploughmens' daughters and butchers' wives : the interrogations of Alice Driver, Elizabeth Young, Agnes Prest and Margaret Clitherow, 1555-1586
Exporting inquisition : Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers at Malta, 1659-1663
Conclusion : visionaries, non-conformists and the history of women's trial writing.