Opus arduum valde : a Wycliffite commentary on the Book of Revelation / [edited] by Romolo Cegna, Christoph Galle, Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cegna, Romolo, editor.

Galle, Christoph, editor.

Schäufele, Wolf-Friedrich, editor.

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; volume 227.

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; volume 227. Texts and sources ; volume 10

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible. Revelation--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Bible.

Bible. Revelation.

Lollards.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Language Note:

Introduction in English followed by the text of the Opus arduum valde in Latin; includes a Latin introduction by Martin Luther.

Summary:

"The Opus arduum valde is a Latin commentary on the Book of Revelation, written in England by an unknown scholarly author in the years 1389-1390. The book originated from the early Wycliffite movement and reflects its experience of persecution in apocalyptic terms. In England it soon fell into oblivion, but was adopted by radical exponents of the fifteenth-century Bohemian Hussites. In the sixteenth century Luther obtained a copy of the Opus arduum valde which he had printed in Wittenberg with his own preface in 1528. This remarkable document of religious dissent in late medieval Europe, highly regarded in Lollard and Hussite studies, is now for the first time made available in a critical edition"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Opus arduum valde

ISBN:

9789004362932

9004362932

OCLC:

1241441437