John Wyclif on War and Peace [Studies in History, New Series]

According to Cox, Wyclif not only rejected conventional Christian ideas about just warfare; he also advocated for nonviolence and nonresistance in the face of aggression by others. The analysis here synthesizes passages from across Wyclifs extensive corpus, utilizing both printed and manuscript sour...

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Published in:The Catholic historical review 2015, Vol.101 (3), p.632-633
Main Author: Hornbeck, J. Patrick
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Corpus analysis
Medieval
Nonviolence
Politics
Studies
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Summary:According to Cox, Wyclif not only rejected conventional Christian ideas about just warfare; he also advocated for nonviolence and nonresistance in the face of aggression by others. The analysis here synthesizes passages from across Wyclifs extensive corpus, utilizing both printed and manuscript sources and showing for the first time how his ideas about politics and warfare sometimes remained consistent and at other times changed over the last decade or so of his life.
ISSN:0008-8080
1534-0708
DOI:10.1353/cat.2015.0201