The Premature Reformation
Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History
Seiten
1988
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-822762-5 (ISBN)
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-822762-5 (ISBN)
This study of Lollardy uses texts composed and assembled by its adherents, episcopal records, chronicles and tracts written against Wycliffe to show the effect of Lollardy on 16th and 17th century reformers.
Lollardy, the movement deriving from the ideas of John Wyclif at the end of the fourteenth century, was the only heresy that affected medieval England. The history of the movement has been written hitherto largely from accounts and documents put together by its enemies which, as well as being hostile, distort and simplify the views, methods, and developments of Lollardy.
This new study represents the most complete account yet of the movement that anticipated many of the ideas and demands of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reformers and puritans. For the first time, it brings together the evidence concerning Lollardy from all sources: texts composed or assembled by its adherents, episcopal records, chronicles, and tracts written against Wyclif and his followers by polemicists. In the light of all this evidence a more coherent picture can be drawn of the movement; the reasoning that lay behind radical opinions put forward by Wyclif's disciples can be discerned, and the concern shown by the ecclesiastical authorities can be seen to have been justified.
Lollardy, the movement deriving from the ideas of John Wyclif at the end of the fourteenth century, was the only heresy that affected medieval England. The history of the movement has been written hitherto largely from accounts and documents put together by its enemies which, as well as being hostile, distort and simplify the views, methods, and developments of Lollardy.
This new study represents the most complete account yet of the movement that anticipated many of the ideas and demands of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reformers and puritans. For the first time, it brings together the evidence concerning Lollardy from all sources: texts composed or assembled by its adherents, episcopal records, chronicles, and tracts written against Wyclif and his followers by polemicists. In the light of all this evidence a more coherent picture can be drawn of the movement; the reasoning that lay behind radical opinions put forward by Wyclif's disciples can be discerned, and the concern shown by the ecclesiastical authorities can be seen to have been justified.
Introduction. The problem of sources; the establishment of the Wycliffite movement; Lollard society; Lollard education; Lollard biblical scholarship; the ideology of Reformation - theology, ecclesiology, politics; the context of vernacular Wycliffism; the re-emergence of reform; conclusion - the premature Reformation?
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.7.1988 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 1166 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-822762-0 / 0198227620 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-822762-5 / 9780198227625 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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