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Print, Orality and Communications in the Maid of Kent Affair

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2001

ETHAN H. SHAGAN
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Abstract

This article explores the printed and oral communications through which the sixteenth-century holy woman Elizabeth Barton publicised her political prophecies against the Henrician Reformation. Authorship of the primary printed account of Barton's early career has been misattributed, leading scholars to underestimate the number of accounts of Barton's miracles which circulated in her lifetime. This observation leads to an analysis of the media apparatus used by Barton and her adherents, which was an expansion into the political realm of the textual and oral networks through which saints' lives and miracles were publicised in late medieval England.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 21 - 33
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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