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Trying testimony :Heresy, interrogation and the English woman writer, 1400--1670 (Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Katherine Evans, Sarah Cheevers).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Trying testimony :
Reminder of title:	Heresy, interrogation and the English woman writer, 1400--1670 (Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Katherine Evans, Sarah Cheevers).
Author:	Gertz-Robinson, Genelle Christine.
Description:	240 p.
Notes:	Advisers: John Fleming; Nigel Smith.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-03, Section: A, page: 0915.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-03A.
Subject:	Literature, English.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3085047
ISBN:	0496328549

Trying testimony :Heresy, interrogation and the English woman writer, 1400--1670 (Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Katherine Evans, Sarah Cheevers).
Gertz-Robinson, Genelle Christine.

Trying testimony :Heresy, interrogation and the English woman writer, 1400--1670 (Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Katherine Evans, Sarah Cheevers). [electronic resource] - 240 p.

Advisers: John Fleming; Nigel Smith.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2003.

Even as religious genres informed women's writing, historical conditions dictated what literary forms would be most compelling. In the Lancastrian, Henrician and Interregnum periods, similar forces of religious controversy, including battles among ecclesiastics and laity over rights to the office of preaching, led to heresy trials and imprisonment. I study the rhetorical meaning of trial for women, suggesting that in the mere representation of courtroom questioning women were able to cloak risky ideas within the seemingly closed, "yes or no" format of procedural exchange. Meanwhile, the dialogic, perhaps even quodlibetical, features of interrogation proved useful not only because they invited female speech, but also, because they established the public context of this articulation. By virtue of being questioned, the woman defendant faced a ready audience of examiners and attendants in the courtroom. Later readers of her account, who themselves gathered in assemblies and sometimes read her work aloud, at once verified and expanded the public significance of her homiletic authority.

ISBN: 0496328549Subjects--Topical Terms:

212435
Literature, English.

Trying testimony :Heresy, interrogation and the English woman writer, 1400--1670 (Margery Kempe, Anne Askew, Katherine Evans, Sarah Cheevers).
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520 # $a Homiletic features of women's writing have been invisible to us largely because they lie outside familiar literary categories. Since early women's writing draws overwhelmingly from prophetic and devotional genres rather than the secular, male-dominated forms of epic, lyric and drama, we need to understand how women's position as principal consumers of vernacular religious texts influenced their literary choices. Especially, women's autobiographical writing imitates stories of trial from saints' lives and the Bible, which provide templates both sufficiently familiar and malleable for constructing subjectivity.
520 # $a Trying Testimony tells the story of early modern women's preaching: how it was suppressed, and the unexpected places it broke out. No place was more unexpected or important than the courtroom. Shrewdly understanding the public nature of trial, women writers turned discourses meant to incriminate them to their own instructional purposes. Chapters on medieval visionary Margery Kempe (fl. 1438), Protestant reformer Anne Askew (d.1546), and Quakers Katherine Evans (d.1692) and Sarah Cheevers (fl. 1663) show these women refashioning the courtroom audience into a congregation responsive to their clerical skills. This recovered tradition of women's preaching revises scholarship on the medieval period that attributes women's authority to visionary rather than textual knowledge, and reveals a new sphere of women's eloquence on a par with Renaissance humanism.
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