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II.40 - A Woman Is Tried for Heresy at Norwich: a Court Record

from Fifteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

Edited with Introduction and Notes by
Carolinne White
Preface by
Catherine Conybeare
Carolinne White
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Catherine Conybeare
Affiliation:
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
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Oral witness is also the basis for the account of what Margery Baxter, charged with heresy at Norwich in 1428, has said and done. Her friends and neighbours are called to witness against her, and through their words we learn not only of the shocking things she has said which confirm her contempt for the Church, but details of the women’s lives.

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heresytrialNorwichMargery BaxterEnglishcode-switchingdialoguewomenbaptismcrucifixdefecationEucharistLollard
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The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 352 - 356
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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