Anne Askew (sometimes spelled Ayscough or Ascue), married name Anne Kyme (1521 – 16 July 1546), [1] was an English writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII of England.

2024年4月15日 · In 1545, Anne Askew was arrested and interrogated about the tenets of her faith, such as transubstantiation, Christ’s sufficiency, and her views on purgatory. She answered based on Scripture and was released after twelve days …

2022年8月26日 · Anne Askew. But one young woman who was able to read the Bible was Anne Askew (born, 1521). Married off to Thomas Kyme by her gentleman father (for financial reasons), Anne had two children and a miserable life. Yet she found comfort in the Bible.

Anne Askew’s life (c. 1521-1546) was one of many made famous by John Foxe in his book of Martyrs in 1563, though at the time of her death in 1546 the crowd that came to see her was so large that it had to be forced back to make space for her to burn.

2018年4月18日 · Anne Askew was condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake in Smithfield, London, in July 1546. Her silence protected some of the most influential evangelicals who were able to continue the work of Reformation.

English Protestant martyr whose adherence to Sacramentarian doctrines led to her execution and subsequent renown as one of the heroines of the English Reformation. Name variations: Askewe, Ascue, Ayscoughe; (married name) Kime, Kyme, Keme. Pronunciation: ASS-que.

2024年1月12日 · Anne Askew (1521-1546) was a Protestant Reformer whose opposition to the Roman doctrine of Transubstantiation resulted in her martyrdom under the reign of Henry VIII. She recorded the events surrounding her persecution along with a statement of her faith, published as The Examinations by John Bale, which was republished in 1563 by John Foxe in ...

2018年7月16日 · Anne Askew was one of the earliest-known female poets to compose in the English language, the first Englishwoman to demand a divorce, and wound up the only recorded woman to be tortured in the Tower of London, then burned at the stake.

Gardiner and his ally on the Council, the Lord Chancellor Thomas Wriothesley, planned to attack the Queen through her ladies and believed they possessed a valuable weapon in the person of Anne Kyme, better known by her maiden name of Anne Askew, a notorious heretic already convicted and condemned.

Welcome to the home page of The Examinations of Anne Askew Online. Although richly deserving of study from various points of view, these sixteenth-century records of the interrogation and execution of a twenty-five year old woman for heresy with a contemporary editor’s commentary do not yet have proper scholarly representation on the web.