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Translating (Anne) Askew: The Textual Remains of a Sixteenth-Century Heretic and Saint*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Theresa D. Kemp
Theresa D. Kemp*
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University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
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Abstract

This essay explores how contemporary depictions of Anne Askew's examination and execution serve as textual sites of contested power between the Henrician conservatives and Protestant reformists who vied for control of English religion and politics during the mid-sixteenth-century. Both the Anglo-Catholics who prosecute Askew as a heretic and the Protestants who vindicate her as a saint attempt to shape and exploit her identity as a woman who has been tortured and burned at the stake. Amid the inquisitional voice of the state officials and the reformist discourse of the Protestant hagiographers, Askew's own text provides yet a third version.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , Winter 1999 , pp. 1021 - 1045
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1999

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