Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer

[...] he suggests, Wycliffism provided not just a context but the most significant context within which late medieval English authors wrote. What links the two is perhaps the most crucial, a threepage "intermezzo" titled, simply, "Wycliffism is not 'lollardy.'" Speciali...

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Published in:Church History 2009, Vol.78 (3), p.678-680
Main Author: Hornbeck, J. Patrick
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Book Reviews and Notes
Chaucer
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400)
Context
Councils
Kempe, Margery
Kempe, Margery (b ca 1373)
Langland, William (1330-1400)
Language history
Middle English
Studies
Theology
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Summary:[...] he suggests, Wycliffism provided not just a context but the most significant context within which late medieval English authors wrote. What links the two is perhaps the most crucial, a threepage "intermezzo" titled, simply, "Wycliffism is not 'lollardy.'" Specialists may quibble with particular aspects of Cole's readings of individual writers, but readers interested more generally in the history of the late medieval church in England and its response to the Wycliffite heresy may find greatest value in Cole's trenchant discussion (in chapter 1 ) of the proceedings of the so-called "Blackfriars Council," which met in 1382 and condemned twenty-four propositions drawn from Wyclifs writings.
ISSN:0009-6407
1755-2613
DOI:10.1017/S0009640709990163