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Heresy trials and English women writers, 1400-1670 /

"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, Margar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gertz, Genelle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; HERESY TRIALS AND ENGLISH WOMEN WRITERS, 1400-1670; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; LAW COURTS AND THE HISTORY OF PROSECUTION FOR BELIEF; PERIODIZATION AND ENGLISH WOMEN'S WRITING; CHAPTER 1: Belief papers and the literary genres of heresy trial; HERESY TRIAL PROCEDURE; ARTICLES; ABJURATIONS; BELIEF PAPERS; ENGENDERING THE TRIAL NARRATIVE; CHAPTER 2: Confessing Margery Kempe, 1413-1438; CONFESSION IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND; IMAGINING INQUISITION IN KEMPE AND THORPE; HOMILY AND TRIAL IN THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE.