The Antwerpian Printer Jacob van Liesvelt, his Widow, and their Bibles: Myths and Facts from a Confessional Era
| العنوان: | The Antwerpian Printer Jacob van Liesvelt, his Widow, and their Bibles: Myths and Facts from a Confessional Era |
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| المؤلفون: | Wim François |
| المصدر: | Church History. 89:779-800 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Cultural Studies, Literature, History, 060106 history of social sciences, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Religious studies, 06 humanities and the arts, Mythology, Toleration, Martyr, 060104 history, Protestantism, Publishing, Argument, 0601 history and archaeology, Confessional, Ideology, business, media_common |
| الوصف: | Jacob van Liesvelt, an Antwerpian printer, was executed in 1545 for publishing without the consent of the authorities. His sad story has been retold throughout the centuries. In an early Protestant tradition, it was argued that Van Liesvelt died because of certain Reformation-minded marginal notes contained in the Bible of 1542, an argument that has been continuously elaborated upon over the years, giving rise to the myth of Van Liesvelt as the martyr of the Word of God. This article critically questions the story of Van Liesvelt's execution, showing ways to “debunk” the myth. However, in her book Pragmatic Toleration (2015), the American scholar Victoria Christman reworks a theory earlier put forward in an article in The Sixteenth Century Journal (2011), building on the Van Liesvelt myth from husband to widow. She argues that the latter, Maria Ancxt, simply continued her husband's Protestant Bible production, uninhibited by his terrifying fate and without experiencing any form of judicial censure. This essay, in contrast, presents a painstaking study of Ancxt's entire Bible production, which firmly arrives at the conclusion that it was largely Catholic in character—although Ancxt explored the boundaries of what was possible—and that this is the reason why she was never disturbed by the authorities. This essay, therefore, also includes more general remarks on confessionally or ideologically colored history writing—in the past and present—while exploring its boundaries. |
| تدمد: | 1755-2613 0009-6407 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::23f3292c1b6be0c22ca84def65cd3d4f https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009640720001948 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....23f3292c1b6be0c22ca84def65cd3d4f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 17552613 00096407 |
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