Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part I Margaret More Roper: Margaret Roper's English version of Erasmus' Precatio Dominica and the apprenticeship behind early Tudor translation, John Archer Gee; Margaret More Roper's translation of Erasmus' Precatio Dominica, Elizabeth McCutcheon; The name and the signature of the author of Margaret Roper's letter to Alice Alington, Nancy E. Wright; Margaret Roper, the Humanist political project, and the problem of agency, Mary Ellen Lamb. Part II Katherine Parr: A Tudor queen finds voice: Katherine Parr's Lamentation of a Sinner, Janel Mueller; Devotion as difference: intertextuality in Queen Katherine Parr's Prayers or Meditations (1545), Janel Mueller; Complications of intertextuality: John Fisher, Katherine Parr, and The Book of the Crucifix, Janel Mueller; Queen Kateryn Parr's Lamentacion of a Synner and the formularies, Frank Howson; 'A supernal lively faith': Katherine Parr and the authoring of devotion, Andrew Hiscock; Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth, and the Crucified Christ, Jonathan Gibson. Part III Anne Askew: Anne Askew's dialogue with authority, Elaine V. Beilin; 'Except that they had offended the lawe': gender and jurisprudence in The Examinations of Anne Askew, Paula McQuade; Anne Askewe, John Bale, and Protestant history, Thomas Betteridge; Translating (Anne) Askew: the textual remains of a 16th-century heretic and saint, Theresa D. Kemp; The plural voices of Anne Askew, Joan Pong Linton; The inheritance of Anne Askew, English Protestant martyr, Susannah Brietz Monta; Stepping into the pulpit? Women's preaching in The Book of Margery Kempe and The Examinations of Anne Askew, Genelle Gertz-Robinson; Response to Genelle Gertz-Robinson: Stepping into the pulpit?, David Wallace. Part IV The Cooke Sisters: Anne Cooke Bacon, Mildred Cooke Cecil: The Cooke sisters: attitudes toward learned women in the Renaissance, Mary Ellen Lamb; The library of Mildred Cooke Cecil, Lady Burghley, Caroline Bowden; Mildred Cecil, Lady Burleigh: poetry, politics and Protestantism, Jane Stevenson; Index.