Bibliography - The Examinations of Anne Askew

Books and Journal Articles

Beilin, Elaine ed. The Examinations of Anne Askew (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Beilin, Elaine. Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987)
Bentley, Thomas. The monument of matrones: conteining seuen seuerall lamps of virginitie, or distinct treatises; whereof the first fiue concerne praier and meditation: the other two last, precepts and examples, as the woorthie works partlie of men, partlie of women; compiled for the necessarie vse of both sexes out of the sacred Scriptures, and other approoued authors, by Thomas Bentley of Graies Inne student (London: Henry Denham, 1582), STC (2nd ed.) 1892–94.
Black, Joseph L. et al. eds. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, 2nd ed., vol. 2, ‘The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century’ (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2010)
Christmas, Henry ed. Select Works of John Bale, D.D., Bishop of Ossory, Containing the examinations of Lord Cobham, William Thorpe, and Anne Askewe, and the Image of Both Churches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1849)
Coles, Kimberly Anne. Religion, Reform, and Women’s Writing in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Costley, Clare L. ‘Authenticity and Excess in The Examinations of Anne Askew,’ Reformation, 19.1 (2014), 21–39.
Fairfield, Leslie P. John Bale: Mythmaker for the English Reformation (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1976)
Foxe, John. Rerum in ecclesia gestarum[ . . . ]commentarii (Basel: Nicholaus Brylinger and Johannes Oporinus, 1559)
Foxe, John. The Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes (London: John Day, 1563)
Gee, Henry and William John Hardy eds. Documents Illustrative of English Church History
Compiled from Original Sources (London: Macmillan, 1896), 303–319.
Greenblatt, Stephen et al. eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th ed., vol. B, ‘The Sixteenth Century/The Early Seventeenth Century’ (New York: W. W. Norton, 2012)
Kiernan, Kevin. “Digital Facsimile in Editing,” in John Unsworth, Lou Burnard, and Katherine O’Brien O’Keefe eds. Electronic Textual Editing (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2006), p. 262–68.
King, John N. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and Early Modern Print Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Martin, Randall ed. Women Writers in Renaissance England: An Annotated Anthology (New York: Routledge, 2014)
McGann, Jerome. The Rationale of the Hypertext (1995). http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/rationale.html Reprinted in McGann’s collection of essays Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), 53–74. Augmented version in Kathryn Sutherland ed. Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1997), 19–46. Mostly discusses The Rossetti Archive
Pender, Patricia. “Sola Scriptura: Reading, Speech, and Silence in The Examinations of Anne Askew.” In Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty, edited by Patricia Pender, 36–63. Early Modern Literature in History. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008015_3.
Pierazzo, Elena. “A Rationale of Digital Documentary Editions,” Literary and Linguistic Computing 26, no. 4 (2011) 463–77.
Pollard, A.W. and G.R. Redgrave (W.A. Jackson, F.S. Ferguson, and Katharine F. Pantzer) eds. A Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad 1475-1640 (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976-1991. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 3 vols.). Referred to as STC or STC (2nd ed.) sitewide.
Rabus, Ludwig. Historien der heyligen ausserwölten gottes zeügen, bekennern vnnd martyrern (Accounts of God’s Holy Chosen Witnesses, Confessors, and Martyrs) (Strasbourg: Sammuel Emmel, 1555–57)
Religious Tract Society, The. Writings of Edward the Sixth, William Hugh, Queen Catherine Parr, Anne Askew, Lady Jane Grey, Hamilton and Balnaves. London: The Religious Tract Society; n.d., 1831, 1836, 1840, 186[?]. Republished in British Reformers (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1842), vol. 3.
Robinson, Peter. ‘Where We Are with Electronic Scholarly Editions, and Where We Want to Be’ Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie Online, January 2004. In print in Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 2004, 123-143.
Robinson, Peter. “Towards a Theory of Digital Editions,” Variants 10 (2013): 105–32, p. 127.
Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth eds. A Companion to Digital Humanities (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
Shillingsburg, Peter. From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006)
——The Account of the Sufferings of Anne Askew for opposing the Gross Fiction of Transubstantiation which is So repugnant to Truth and Common Sense, and Has No Warranty Whatever from Scripture, Written by Herself and Re-printed by a Catholic (London: Francis & John Rivington/St Paul’s Church Yard, & Waterloo Palace, 1849)
van Haemstede, Adriaan. De geschiedenisse ende den doodt de vromer martelaren (‘The Lives and Deaths [literally the histories/events and killings] of the Pious Martyrs,’ trans. mine) (Emden, 1559)

Online Editions, Resources and Databases

- The Unabridged Acts and Monuments Online
- Online Beowulf
- Bichitra Online Variorum
- The British Library English Short Title Catalogue
- Archive of the Text Encoding Initative
- Catalogue of digital scholarly editions compiled by the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing

Blogs

A great deal of material on the subject is available in religious blogs and websites but this list focuses on sites that look at the Askew individual and phenomenon from a predominantly socio-politico-historical, if not strictly scholarly, perspective.