#anne askew

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FIREBRAND (2023) dir. Karim Aïnouz

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"She said that one man confronted her, but he had said so little of significance that she could not recall his words."

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ON THIS DAY - 06 October 1536

On This Day (06 Oct) 1536, the execution of English Reformist Scholar and Translator William Tyndale at Vilvoorde, near Brussels, is commemorated.

Tyndale began his English translations of the Bible from Hebrew and Greek c.1522, being influenced by Martin Luther's earlier translations in German. His work included the New Testament and the historical books of the Old Testament, which were subsequently published between 1525-1534. They were subsequently condemned and banned in England'; however, copies continued to make their way from Europe, where translated works were not illegal.

In 1543, English Parliament passed 'The Act for the Advancement of true Religion', which attempted to control and reduce the possession of these translations. Restrictions were placed on the reading of the Bible: only clergy were permitted to read aloud and in public  'authorised' copies, with possession and private readings only permitted by members of the clergy, nobility, gentry and upper classes. Reformist preacher Anne Askew defied this new Act, being in possession of Tyndale's translations and reading from the Bible in public.

In 1528, Tyndale published 'The Obedience of a Christian Man', which included the advocation for the right of the head of state to also be the head of the church. This work reportedly influenced Henry VIII with his 'break' from Rome, and the passing of the 'Act of Supremacy', placing himself at the head of the newly formed Church of England, in place of the Pope.

Despite this, Tyndale published further works which condemned the actions of the king regarding the dissolution of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, arguing that it was against Scripture; it was this open defiance that led to Tyndale's arrest and subsequent conviction of 'Lutheran heresy', which included accusations of insurrection against Henry and England.

Tyndale had been arrested in 1535, and held at Vilvoorde (Filford) Castle for 18 months prior to his death. On the morning of his execution, he was escorted from the castle, into the town, where a pyre had been erected. Whilst tied to a stake, Tyndale was strangled to death (reflecting his status as a scholar), and his body then burnt - the fate of those convicted of heresy.

Tyndale was commemorated by John Foxe in his 1563 publication 'Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church', also known as 'Foxe's Book of Martyrs'. It was Foxe that first commemorated his death on 06 Oct, although it has been documented that it took place "in the early days of October". Foxe also alleged that Tyndale's last words were “Lord, open the king of England’s eyes".

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‘Tudor Feminists: Ten Renaissance Women Ahead of Their Time’ by Rebecca Wilson

Genre: Adult Non-Fiction – History Published: 2024 Format: Hardback Rating: ★★★ I enjoyed this book – it was good to learn more about some of the people I knew less about like Arbella Stuart, Grainne O’Malley, and Aemilia Lanier. I had only heard of Lanier in passing, knew she was a poet, and O’Malley I largely knew about through Greg Jenner’s excellent episode on her on his ‘You’re Dead to…

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ANNE ASKEW

ANNE ASKEW 1521 - 16 July 1546 English writer who was tortured and burned alive for being a Protestant Anne Askew was an English writer, poet and Protestant. She was the first female poet to compose in the English language. Askew was born in South Kelsey, Lincolnshire, England. Her father was a wealthy gentleman at the court of King Henry VIII of England, he was the juror during the trial of Anne Boleyn’s co-accused. Anne Askews older sister Martha was married to Thomas Kyme, a Catholic, when Martha died, her father had Anne, 15, marry him to save money. The couple had two children, Thomas kicked her out for being a outspoken Protestant, and she became the first Englishwoman to ask for a divorce. Her outspoken Protestant beliefs caused her arrested. Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of London. She was subjected to a cross examination by four men including John Dudley (Robert Dudley’s father). The men threatened to have her executed, if she refused to name Protestants. The men ordered her torture, she was taken from her cell to the lower room in the White Tower. They made her remove her clothing, except for her shift. She was placed her on the rack, her wrists and ankles were fastened. The rack slowly pulled on her limbs, which caused her to faint from the pain and had to be revived. She was racked once more, her shoulders were pulled from their sockets and her elbows and knees were also dislocated. She was racked till ‘the strings of her arms and eyes were perished’. Despite the suffering she continued to refuse to give names, and she was returned to her cell. On 16 July 1546, Askew, 25, was burnt alive for heresy with three men. She had to be carried to the stake in a chain wearing just a shirt. She was unable to walk and any kind of movement caused her serious pain. She was fastened upright to the stake by a chain around her waist. Protestant martyrologist John Foxe hailed Askew as ‘a singular example of Christian constancy for all men to follow’. Anne defied her gender by portraying herself as an ‘armed knight’ fighting the papist foe with faith as her shield.

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Woodcut of Anne Askew's burning for heresy at Smithfield in 1546.

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Poem of the Day 9 September 2024

The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate

BY Askew, Anne (1521 - 1546)

Like as the armed knight

Appointed to the field,

With this world will I fight

And Faith shall be my shield.

Faith is that weapon strong

Which will not fail at need.

My foes, therefore, among

Therewith will I proceed.

As it is had in strength

And force of Christes way

It will prevail at length

Though all the devils say nay.

Faith in the fathers old

Obtained rightwisness

Which make me very bold

To fear no world's distress.

I now rejoice in heart

And Hope bid me do so

For Christ will take my part

And ease me of my woe.

Thou saist, lord, who so knock,

To them wilt thou attend.

Undo, therefore, the lock

And thy strong power send.

More enmyes now I have

Than hairs upon my head.

Let them not me deprave

But fight thou in my stead.

On thee my care I cast.

For all their cruel spight

I set not by their haste

For thou art my delight.

I am not she that list

My anchor to let fall

For every drizzling mist

My ship substancial.

Not oft use I to wright

In prose nor yet in rime,

Yet will I shew one sight

That I saw in my time.

I saw a rial throne

Where Justice should have sit

But in her stead was one

Of moody cruel wit.

Absorpt was rightwisness

As of the raging flood

Sathan in his excess

Suct up the guiltless blood.

Then thought I, Jesus lord,

When thou shalt judge us all

Hard is it to record

On these men what will fall.

Yet lord, I thee desire

For that they do to me

Let them not taste the hire

Of their iniquity.

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Lady Katherine Willoughby, wife of Charles Brandon, was closely knit into the Parr-Askew reform circle.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

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God rest her soul.

BIOGRAPHIE D'ANNE ASKEW

Anne Askew (née Anne Ayscough ou Ascue - Anne Kyme par son mariage) est née en 1520 ou 1521 et morte le 16 juillet 1546. Cette poétesse anglaise protestante fut condamnée pour hérésie. Elle est la seule femme dont on ait trace qui ait été à la fois torturée dans la Tour de Londres et brûlée vive sur le bûcher.

Anne Askew était la fille de Sir William Askew, de South Kelsey, (Lincolnshire), qui avait participé au procès d'Anne Boleyn. Mariée malgré elle par son père à 16 ans à un gentilhomme catholique, elle donna deux enfants à celui-ci. On dit qu'elle était une suivante de la reine Catherine Parr, la dernière épouse d'Henry VIII avec qui elle aurait correspondu.

Anne Askew, de tendance réformée, niait la doctrine de la transsubstantiation, la transformation lors de la communion du pain en chair du Christ et du vin en son sang. Son mari la dénonça comme hérétique. Elle fut alors jetée en prison. Depuis le bill d'Henry VIII, tous ceux qui niaient la doctrine de la transsubstantiation étaient convaincus d'hérésie. Anne fut interrogée par des inquisiteurs dont Christophe Dare, le lord-maire de Londres et le chancelier de l'évêque, et elle refusa de répondre à la question de la transsubstantiation. Lui furent également reprochés ses propos et ses écrits selon lesquels Dieu ne serait pas dans les temples et la Bible vaudrait mieux que la messe. Elle fut cependant libérée grâce à des amis, peut-être indirectement la reine elle-même ou Anne Stanhope.

Mais elle fut à nouveau arrêtée et transférée à Newgate où on lui ordonna de se rétracter sous peine d'être brûlée vive ; aux termes d'interrogatoires qui l'avaient poussée à bout, elle affirma que ce que l'on disait être le corps du Christ n'était qu'un morceau de pain. Et elle refusa de se confesser à un prêtre. Seul Dieu, affirma-t-elle, l'écouterait et lui pardonnerait.

Elle fut alors envoyée à la Tour de Londres et mise à la torture (elle fut la première femme ainsi torturée pour sa Foi) afin qu'elle dénonce ses soutiens, la reine peut-être, le comte et la comtesse d'Hertford. Sur le chevalet, bien que toutes ses articulations aient été disloqu��es, elle ne dénonça personne mais s'évanouit. Elle fut condamnée à être brûlée vive.

Elle mourut le 16 juillet 1546 à 25 ans. Ne pouvant marcher tant la douleur était forte au moindre mouvement, elle fut conduite au bûcher dans une chaise à porteurs et il fallut l'enchaîner au poteau par les bras.

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The Tudors ran so Wulf Hall could shuffle awkwardly around reiterating the same tired old Tudor stereotypes while claiming to be something new.

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I really want to watch firebrand but everything I'm seeing/hearing about it is making me think it'll remind me uncomfortably of growing up with my dad

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National Poetry Day 2024 (03 Oct 2024)

On National Poetry Day, I wanted to highlight the 'Hecatodistichon': a poem written in Latin, reportedly composed by the young daughters of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset - Anne, Margaret and Jane.

This poem, the first published by collective Englishwomen (in any language) prior to 1560s, was dedicated to the recently deceased writer, poet and literary patron Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre, whose work the young girls were taught by their French Humanist tutor, Nicolas Denisot.

I also need to acknowledge Anne Askew, Reformist preacher, poet, writer and eventual martyr, who openly and repeatedly defied religious policies of the time, including reading the Bible aloud.

Whilst imprisoned at Newgate Prison in 1545, Anne composed her 'Ballad'; she was one of the first women to have original work published in English. She continued to write poetry, in which she reflected on her 'mission' to spread the Protestant word, which would eventually lead to her death.

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Book Review - ‘Heroines of the Tudor World’ by Sharon Bennett Connolly

Thanks to Amberley Publishing for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for a review. I loved this book! It doesn’t just cover the people you’d expect like the six wives and the queens, but other women who were executed, who wrote, who were mistresses, and pawns, and warriors. There are also women covered from outside England, from Scotland, Ireland, France, and Spain. These international…

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Fox's Book of Martyrs

https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/foxs-book-of-martyrs/ Edited by William Byron Forbush This is a book that will never die — one of the great English classics. . . . Reprinted here in its most complete form, it brings to life the days when “a noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid,” “climbed the steep ascent of heaven, ‘mid peril, toil, and pain.” “After the Bible itself, no…

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Hi Neil! I don't know if it was asked before, but was Anne Askew an inspiration for Agnes Nutter? I see similarities between them, like they both wrote successful books, were burned at the stake and there was gunpowder involved. I listened to a podcast about Anne Askew, and her story reminded me of Agnes so I was wondering if it was a coincidence or not.

No, Agnes's story and name were inspired by Alice Nutter, one of the Pendle witches.