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Both In Its Own Time And Subsequently, The Lollard Or Wycliffite Movement Of Religious Reform In Late Medieval England Has Been Described In Predominantly Negative Terms: Historians, Theologians, And Literary Scholars Have Emphasized The Ways In Which Wycliffites And Their Supporters Rejected The Doctrines Of The Institutional Church, Argued Against Such Practices And Structures As Permanent Endowment And The Papacy, And Constructed Themselves As A Remnant Of True Christians Persecuted By Antichrist. Luckily, However, There Are Other Sources Of Evidence For The Spiritual And Devotional Practices Of Wycliffites And Their Communities. On The One Hand, Some Particularly Attentive Bishops Preserved In Their Registers Many Otherwise Inaccessible Details Of The Ways In Which Heresy Defendants Practiced Their Faith. On The Other Hand, Recent Scholarship Has Made It Indisputable That Any Serious Study Of This Late Medieval Heresy Must Engage Critically And Extensively With The Texts Written By Those Condemned As Heretics. This New Volume In The Classics Of Western Spirituality Series Is A Collection Of Modern English Translations Of Wycliffite Texts And Heresy Trial Records Which Disclose

Author

and translated by J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Stephen E. Lahey, Fiona Somerset

Publisher

Paulist Press International,u

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809147656

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Humanities