ABSTRACT
This volume includes leading scholarship on five writers active in the first half of the sixteenth century: Margaret More Roper, Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mildred Cooke Cecil and Anne Cooke Bacon. The essays represent a range of theoretical approaches and provide valuable insights into the religious, social, economic and political contexts essential for understanding these writers' texts. Scholars examine the significance of Margaret More Roper's translations and letters in the contexts of humanism, family relationships and changing cultural forces; the contributions of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew to Reformation discourses and debates; and the material presence of Mildred Cooke Cecil and Anne Cooke Bacon in the intellectual, religious and political life of their time. The introduction surveys the development of the field as an interdisciplinary project involving literature, history, classics, religion and cultural studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Margaret More Roper
chapter 1|16 pages
Margaret Roper’s English Version of Erasmus’ Precatio Dominica and the Apprenticeship Behind Early Tudor Translation
chapter 4|26 pages
Margaret Roper, the Humanist Political Project, and the Problem of Agency
part |2 pages
Part II Katherine Parr
chapter 6|28 pages
Devotion as Difference: Intertextuality in Queen Katherine Parr’s Prayers or Meditations (1545)
chapter 10|18 pages
Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth, and the Crucified Christ
part |2 pages
Part III Anne Askew