This website presents the texts of the two Examinations<\/em> of the sixteenth- century Protestant martyr Anne Askew in electronic format.1<\/sup><\/a>For information on the author, the sixteenth-century editor, and the texts see the \u2018Contexts<\/a>\u2019 page.<\/span><\/span> In its final form the site will try to achieve the status of what Peter Shillingsburg calls a \u2018knowledge site\u2019 2<\/sup><\/a>Peter Shillingsburg, From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts<\/em> (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006), first mentioned on p. 2. For Shillingsburg, the normative electronic edition is always a knowledge site.<\/span><\/span> for the texts under discussion. Hugely inspired by The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online<\/em><\/a> project, and keeping the current catalogue<\/a> of digital scholarly editions compiled by the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing<\/a> always handy, this website aims to ultimately create a textual archive underpinning scholarly editions that can,\u00a0to use Shillingsburg\u2019s words again, \u2018also serve as pedagogical tools in an environment where each user can choose an entry way, select a congenial set of enabling contextual materials, and emerge with a personalized interactive form of the work (serving the place of the well-marked and dog-eared book), always able to plug back in for more information or different perspectives.\u20193<\/sup><\/a>Ibid. p. 88<\/span><\/span> This is, of course, an objective not to be achieved by a single researcher on a short term grant. But the publishing of this preliminary work might well be seen as the first step of an academically useful and sustainable goal.<\/p>\n For a discussion contextualizing academic electronic editions see The\u00a0Digital Scholarly Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n For an outline of the editorial vision for this resource see Aims and Objectives<\/a>.<\/p>\n For the long-term plans regarding the comparison of textual variants see Collation<\/a>.<\/p>\n To know more about the creator of this web resource see The Editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n