Genelle Gertz

Heresy Trls Eng Women Wrt 1400-1670

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book charts the emergence of women's writing from the procedures of heresy trials and recovers a tradition of women's trial narratives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781107017054
• ISBN-10: 110701705X
• Artikelnr.: 35118105

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.