Prophesying Women and the Gifts of the Spirit

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-188
Author(s):  
Marilyn J. Westerkamp
Keyword(s):  
Anne Askew

This chapter delineates in greater detail the radical potential of this Puritan spirituality and the profound appeal of radical sectaries to women. This includes the deep respect earned by female partisans, from the Henrician martyr Anne Askew to the centrality of women in the Quaker movement. Along this same trajectory, the mystical side of this spirituality is tracked from the followers of Henrik Niclaes through to the sectarians of the 1640s and 1650s. Data for this chapter comes from material produced by both proponents and detractors of the sectaries. The chapter includes the stories of many individual women and their theologies as well as sectarian communities, essentially fleshing out the promise of the final pages of chapter four.

Anne Askew

2020 ◽  
pp. 255-290
Author(s):  
Susan Wabuda
Keyword(s):  
Anne Askew

Talking Books

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-229
Author(s):  
Jennifer Richards
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
John Bale ◽  
Printing Process ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Oral Testimony ◽  
Anne Askew ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Authorial Voice

This chapter explores the printed books of the sixteenth century as ‘talking books’; it also explores how the voice is implicated in the printing process. It focuses on the work of two print-aware authors, John Bale and William Baldwin, who worked with the most influential ‘talking book’ in England in the 1540s: Erasmus’s Paraphrases. It explores Bale’s attentiveness to the physical voice of Anne Askew in his editions of her Examinations (1546, 1547), arguing that he uses print to turn the written form of her oral testimony into a script for oral readers. It attends to Baldwin’s representation of the voices of illiterate working men, medieval magistrates, and an array of untrustworthy characters, including some noisy cats, to create careful ‘listeners’ who are aware of the manipulative authorial voice that lies behind literary voices on the page as well as the risks of affective ‘mishearing’.

ANNE ASKEW:

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
Claire Askew
Keyword(s):  
Anne Askew

Descendants of Anne Askew

1916 ◽  
Vol s12-I (9) ◽  
pp. 168-168
Author(s):  
Fanning C. T. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Anne Askew

Anne Askew

1869 ◽  
Vol s4-IV (104) ◽  
pp. 571-571
Author(s):  
W. T. T. D.
Keyword(s):  
Anne Askew

Anne Askew

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Available P ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
John Bale ◽  
Biographical Information ◽  
John Foxe ◽  
Untimely Death ◽  
Radical Reformation ◽  
Anne Askew ◽  
Church Policy

Anne Askew was born of a notable Lincolnshire family and became a Protestant voice of radical reformation at the end of the reign of Henry VIII. According to Bale, Askew was compelled to marry Thomas Kyme as a substitute for her sister’s prior betrothal upon her untimely death. Askew sought a divorce after Kyme drove her from their home for her unorthodox beliefs. It is likely that her vocal criticisms of church policy regarding demonstrations of faith brought her to the attention of the bishops. She was first interrogated by Bishop Bonner and subsequently released before being re-captured. During her second imprisonment, Bishop Gardiner and Chancellor Wriothesley conducted the interrogation and torture, which historians generally attribute to the effort to prove the Protestant leanings of Henry VIII’s last queen. The unusual torture Askew endured as a gentlewoman has been understood to suggest her direct affiliation with the circle of Katherine Parr. In 1546, at age twenty-five, she was burned at the stake as a heretic. She became a significant martyr when John Bale and John Foxe published accounts of her interrogation, imprisonment, and torture. Askew is known almost exclusively from the two narratives she wrote of her interrogations: The first examinacyon (1546) discusses her beliefs and her efforts to frustrate her interrogators; The lattre examinacyon (1547) describes her re-arrest and the judicial torture she endured along with interrogation leading to her execution. John Bale first published her works along with commentary and framing, which supply much of the biographical information about Askew that remains available.

Pregnant Silences:

Moreana ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (Number 175) (3) ◽  
pp. 161-187
Author(s):  
David Parry
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
New England ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Anne Askew ◽  
Anne Hutchinson ◽  
Sowing Seed ◽  
Pregnancy And Birth

This article examines the texts recounting the trials of Anne Askew (c.1521-1546) and Anne Hutchinson (c.1591-1643). Anne Askew was burnt for eucharistic views contravening Henry VIII’s Six Articles, whilst Anne Hutchinson was a dissident exiled from the Puritan colony of New England. Scholarship on these two Annes usually focuses either on gender roles or on doctrinal controversy. This article proposes that gender and doctrine are intertwined in the concepts of activity and passivity invoked in these narratives and expressed through the metaphors of sowing seed, pregnancy and birth. These metaphors echo, in unsettling ways, Aristotle, Luther and the Bible.

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