Marshall, Peter, 1964 October 26- (1998) Review of Dangerous talk and strange behaviour : women and popular resistance to the reforms of Henry VIII, by Jansen, S. L. English Historical Review, Vol.113 (No.453). pp. 986-987. ISSN 0013-8266

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Abstract

Sharon L. Jansen's Dangerous Talk and Strange Behaviour. Women and Popular Resistance to the Reforms of Henry VIII (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996; pp. 232. £26.50) surveys ground familiar to Tudor historians from G. R. Elton's magisterial Policy and Police. The Enforcement of the Reformation in the Age of Thomas Cromwell (Cambridge, 1972). The scope of her book, however, is considerably more circumscribed; case-studies of four women (Margaret Cheyne, Elizabeth Barton, Elizabeth Wood and Mabel Brigge), who between 1534 and 1538 were executed for their opposition to Henry VIII. [...]

Item Type:	Book Review
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England, Political crimes and offences -- England -- History -- 16th century, Women -- Political activity -- England -- History -- 16th century, Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1509-1547
Journal or Publication Title:	English Historical Review
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0013-8266
Book Title:	Dangerous talk and strange behaviour : women and popular resistance to the reforms of Henry VIII
Date:	September 1998
Volume:	Vol.113
Number:	No.453
Number of Pages:	2
Page Range:	pp. 986-987
Identification Number:	10.1093/ehr/CXIII.453.986
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/14662

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