02455cam a2200313 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700800410003401000170007502000260009204000370011808200180015510000200017324500730019326400640026630000230033033600210035333700250037433800230039950400620042252010990048465000450158365000620162865000780169085600840176885601060185285600910195885600920204917216842BD-DhUL20170104133102.0120319s2012    enk      b    001 0 eng    a  2012011808  a9781107017054 (cloth)  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLCdBD-DhUL00a820.9382bGEH1 aGertz, Genelle.10aHeresy trials and English women writers, 1400-1670 /cGenelle Gertz. 1aCambridge :aNew York ;bCambridge University Press,c2012.  ax, 258 p. ;c23 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references p. 227-251 and index.  a"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"--cProvided by publisher. 0aTrials (Heresy)zGreat BritainxHistory. 0aEnglish literaturexWomen authorsxHistory and criticism. 7aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.2bisacsh423Cover imageuhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/17054/cover/9781107017054.jpg423Contributor biographical informationuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012011808-b.html423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012011808-d.html413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012011808-t.html