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Book SynopsisRequired reading for everyone wishing to learn about or research in the field of Wycliffite and Lollard studies. RICHARD REX, QUEENS' COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Who were the Lollards? What did Lollards believe? What can the manuscript record of Lollard works teach us about the textual dissemination of Lollard beliefs and the audience for Lollard writings? What did Lollards have in commonwith other reformist or dissident thinkers in late medieval England, and how were their views distinctive? These questions have been fundamental to the modern study of Lollardy (also known as Wycliffism). The essays in this book reveal their broader implications for the study of English literature and history through a series of closely focused studies that demonstrate the wide-ranging influence of Lollard writings and ideas on later medieval English culture. Introductions to previous scholarship, and an extensive Bibliography of printed resources for the study of Wyclif and Wycliffites, provide an entry to scholarship for those new to the field. Contributors: DAVID AERS, MARGARET ASTON, HELEN BARR, MISHTOONI BOSE, LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER, ANDREW COLE, RALPH HANNA III, ANNE HUDSON, MAUREEN JURKOWSKI, ANDREW LARSEN, GEOFFREY H. MARTIN, DERRICK G. PITARD, WENDY SCASE, FIONA SOMERSET, EMILY STEINER.
Table of ContentsPreface - Anne Hudson 'Heu! quanta desolatio Angliae praestatur': A Wycliffite Libel and the Naming of Heretics, Oxford 1382 - William Langland and the Invention of Lollardy - Andrew Cole Are All Lollards Lollards? - Andrew Larsen Lollardy in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire: The Two Thomas Compworths - Maureen Jurkowski Lollards and the Cross - Margaret Aston Walter Brut's Theology of the Sacrament of the Altar - David Aers Here, There, and Everywhere? Wycliffite Conceptions of the Eucharist and Chaucer's 'Other' Lollard Joke - Fiona Somerset English Biblical Texts before Lollardy and their Fate - Ralph Hanna Lollardy and the Legal Document - Emily Steiner Franciscans, Lollards, and Reform - Lawrence M. Clopper Wycliffite Representations of the Third Estate - Helen Barr Reginald Pecock's Vernacular Voice - Mishtooni Bose Wyclif, Lollards, and Historians, 1384-1984 - Geoffrey H Martin A Select Bibliography for Lollard Studies - Derrick G. Pitard
