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.

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安特卫普印刷商 Jacob van Liesvelt、他的遗孀和他们的圣经：忏悔时代的神话和事实

安特卫普印刷商 Jacob van Liesvelt 于 1545 年因未经当局同意出版而被处决。几个世纪以来，他的悲伤故事一直被重述。在早期的新教传统中，有人认为范·利斯福死于 1542 年《圣经》中某些具有改革意识的旁注，这一论点多年来一直被不断阐述，从而产生了范·利斯福作为上帝圣言的殉道者。本文批判性地质疑 Van Liesvelt 被处决的故事，展示了“揭穿”神话的方法。然而，在她的书中务实的宽容（2015 年），美国学者维多利亚·克里斯特曼（Victoria Christman）修改了早先在一篇文章中提出的理论十六世纪杂志（2011 年），建立在范利斯维尔特从丈夫到寡妇的神话之上。她争辩说，后者玛丽亚·安克斯特只是继续她丈夫的新教圣经制作，不受他可怕命运的束缚，也没有受到任何形式的司法谴责。相比之下，这篇文章对 Ancxt 的整个圣经作品进行了艰苦的研究，得出的结论是，它在很大程度上是天主教性质的——尽管 Ancxt 探索了可能性的界限——这就是为什么她从来没有受到当局的困扰。因此，本文还包括对过去和现在的忏悔或意识形态色彩历史写作的更一般性评论，同时探索其边界。