Selections from English Wycliffite writings / edited with an introduction, notes, and glossary by Anne Hudson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hudson, Anne, 1938-

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Medieval Academy reprints for teaching ; 38.

Medieval Academy reprints for teaching ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lollards--Early works to 1800.

Lollards.

Penn Provenance:

Peters, Edward, 1936- (donor) (Lea copy)

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : New York : University of Toronto Press in association with the Medieval Academy of America, [1997]

Summary:

Selections From English Wycliffite Writings Gathers Together The Main sources for the study of the Lollard movement, the documents of the Lollards themselves. Inspired and influenced by the writings of the heretical fourteenth-century Oxford professor John Wyclif, Lollardy was the spiritual predecessor of the sixteenth century Reformation movement in England. Persecuted for their radical beliefs after 1425, the Lollards were well known for their possession of books, quires, and pamphlets in English, and left behind a considerable body of literature discussing religious and political reform, which remain the best source for understanding the Lollards and their beliefs.

Anne Hudson has gathered together a wide and varied selection of twenty-seven primary texts written between 1385 and 1425 by members of the Lollard sect in England, illustrating the variety of Lollard tracts, sermons, and satires, as well as the range of Lollard interests and preoccupations. The book is divided into four sections: The Nature of Wycliffite Belief; The Lollards and the Bible; Lollard Polemic; and Lollard Doctrine. The text is in Middle English with extensive supplemental notes.

This Mart edition comes with a revised and updated bibliography by the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-235) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Edward Peters.

ISBN:

0802080456

9780802080455

OCLC:

46959946