Pregnant Silences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20146320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Parry (0009-0000-5100-3154, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 45 (Number 175) |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 161-187 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.2008.45.3.10 |
| OpenAlex | W4236411934 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
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
Art · Doctrine · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
The Death of the Author (And the Appropriation of Her Text)
Most Fit for a Wounded Conscience" The Place of Luther's "Commentary on Galatians" in Grace Abounding
Racking the Body, Shaping the Text
Translating (Anne) Askew
Anne Hutchinson and the Puritan Attitude toward Women
Anne Hutchinson, Sectarian Mysticism, and the Puritan Order
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |