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Lees, Victoria. "Heresy, hearsay and historiography: tracing the voice of Anne Hutchinson," Bowling Green State University, August 2000.
All historians of the seventeenth-century antinomian controversy rely on the same documents to make their respective cases for or against Anne Hutchinson. They use what have come to be thought of as the primary sources of the period: the transcripts of the two trials in which Hutchinson was accused. To those who show some skepticism about using these transcripts to get at
what Hutchinson believed invariably comes the response, “of course it’s important to bear in mind that the transcript of the civil trial comes from Winthrop’s _Journal_.” Historians of the era are sincere in issuing this caveat, but it appears they mean it for only as long as it takes them to say it. For beyond noting that the _Journal_ may be biased in favor of the orthodox view, historians of the controversy stop short of asking any further questions about the transcripts. This dissertation does not stop short, it probes the authority of the sources of the voice of Anne Hutchinson. Virtually all historians of Anne Hutchinson and the
antinomian controversy claim to know what Anne Hutchinson said, thought, and believed. While citing for important comparison those who do not make this claim, my dissertation ultimately is an inquiry into answering the question: how do
historians know what Anne Hutchinson said, thought, and believed?
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