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During the last years of Henry VIII’s reign, Anne Askew eloquently affirmed her evangelical faith and defied the heresy laws enforced by the Catholic church, the city of London, and the Privy Council. In her two works, The first examinacyon (1546) and The lattre examinacyon (1547), Askew recounts her interrogations and articulates her belief in the primacy of bible reading and the Reformist doctrine of the Eucharist. Refusing to recant, she was burned at the stake. After her death, the Protestant polemicist, John Bale, published her works, representing her as an icon of the English Reformation.
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Beilin, E.V. (2017). Askew, Anne. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_457-1
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