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Anne Askew is renowned as a Protestant martyr from Henrician England. She has been exalted in Reformation hagiography due to both her stern refusal to recant her beliefs and her fearless death on the pyres of Smithfield. However, this exaltation did not come about as a result of Anne fitting the Protestant mold of womanly obedience and virtue. In reality, while Anne embodied the spirit of the Protestant Reformation, she did so by disobeying holy scripture. This spirit, coupled with the biographical generalities surrounding Anne’s life, made her a perfect vehicle through which both Protestants and Catholics could further their respective religious agendas. By exemplifying certain aspects of Anne’s life as well as her work Examinations in order to foster a Protestant sense of English nationalism, Protestants like John Bale and John Foxe, portrayed her as a model of piety and virtue. In contrast, Catholics such as Robert Parsons used Anne’s scriptural disobedience to condemn her as a flippant blasphemer. However, the real Anne Askew was somewhere in the middle, between the virtuous wife and the heretical whore.
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Negotiating Heresy in Tudor England: Anne Askew and the Bishop of London2007 •
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The article explores a variety of Anglican, Protestant Nonconformist and Roman Catholic responses to 18th and 19th century republications of John Foxe's 'Acts and Monuments' or 'Book of Martyrs'. It traces how competing denominational and church party groups used Foxe in the theological controversies of their day.
MUSIC, CHURCH, AND HENRY VIII’S REFORMATION Dana T. Marsh The Queen’s College, Oxford Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Trinity Term 2007 The defining intellectual, historical and cultural influences on Henry VIII’s Reformation have remained virtually unchanged in musicological narratives since the 1960s. In recent decades, however, scholars in the field of Reformation historiography have completely revised their view of the same period. It is a chief aim of this study to address the resultant historiographical disjunction between the two disciplines. Typically, musicological investigations have focused first on specific institutional archives and their connected music manuscript evidence. The present thesis looks beyond these methodological foci via an interdisciplinary approach, supported by a range of primary source materials that incorporate musical, historical, cultural and sociological elements. The historical presuppositions conventionally taken for granted in framing the musicological narrative of Henrician reform will be reassessed in part one. Part two centres on changes in religious policy and doctrine: first, a fresh look at the musical consequences of the dissolution of the monasteries; second, an investigation of musical invective in printed evangelical polemics of the early 1540s; third, a reassessment of religious dissent among church musicians, with a new look at the heresy trial of John Merbecke. Part three offers for the first time a coherent rationale for the prevalent musical conservatism of Henry VIII’s church, deriving chiefly from Bishop Richard Sampson’s psalm commentaries (1539), and his ‘short explanations’ on St Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (1546). These neglected texts are also deployed in a reexamination of musical guidelines in the document, Ceremonyes to be vsyd in the churche of Englonde (1540). A broader view of the circumstances surrounding the emergence of the King’s Litany (1544) further reveals a unique fusion of ‘traditionalism’ and ‘reform’ – an ostensible via media – finding elements of kingship, church and society brought together into a culturally integrated whole. N.B. - Chapter 5 has been expanded and published in Early Music History (2010)
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