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Anne Cooke Bacon: Translator and Apologist Extraordinaire

Fri, April 1, 1:30 to 3:00pm, Park Plaza, Floor: Fourth Floor, Franklin Room

Abstract

Two prefaces are the focus of this paper: one composed by the unmarried Anne Cooke before her translation of fourteen sermons from the Italian of Bernardino Ochino in 1551 and the other by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker in praise of the work of Anne Bacon as the translator of Bishop Jewel’s Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae in 1564. I want to investigate the fraught Reformation contexts and adroit manoeuvring of each preface. Cooke’s own filial poise disarms her mother’s objection to her study of Italian, while Parker’s introduction to this defence of the Elizabethan Church Settlement deliberately invokes conventional topoi and formulae. I am interested in pursuing the ligatures–social, political, religious--that join these two prefaces.

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