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The Examination of Anne Askew, written by Anne Askew who was burnt to death as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII, is a good example to show the complicated relationship between an individual and the church-state. Askew was arrested for reading the English Bible at church, which was forbidden to women, and put on trial. She began to record the conversation between the examiners and her, and defended her faith. Her writing benefits from her command of various tactics from arguing against her opponents with the knowledge of the bible to hiding her recantation of faith. As soon as her record of examination was handed to John Bale, he transformed the writing into a hagiography at the price of damaging Askew’s original record. This article attempts to understand the deeper structure of The Examinations by analyzing the conflict and tension between the elements of Anne Askew’s original autobiographical writing and those of hagiography edited by John Bale, who wanted to position Askew as a Protestant saintess.
