Lollards And Their Books

Author : Anne Hudson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780907628606
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lollards and their Books written by Anne Hudson and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Lollard movement is intimately concerned with their writings and literacy. Anne Hudson's work in this field is the most important modern contribution to the subject. This collection of articles makes indispensable reading for anyone interested in the history or the literature of the period.

Author : Fiona Somerset
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0851159958
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England written by Fiona Somerset and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 common with 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, MAUREEN JURKOWSKI, ANDREW LARSEN, GEOFFREY H. MARTIN, WENDY SCASE, FIONA SOMERSET, EMILY STEINER. FIONA SOMERSET is at Duke University, Durham NC; JILL C. HAVENS is at Texas Christian University; DERRICK G. PITARD is at Slippery Rock University, PA.

Author : Medieval Academy of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802080455
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selections from English Wycliffite Writings written by Medieval Academy of America and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is in Middle English with extensive supplemental notes that help to fully explain the context of each work. This new MART edition comes with a revised and updated bibliography by the editor.

Author : Fiona Somerset
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801470986
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeling Like Saints written by Fiona Somerset and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lollard" is the name given to followers of John Wyclif, the English dissident theologian who was dismissed from Oxford University in 1381 for his arguments regarding the eucharist. A forceful and influential critic of the ecclesiastical status quo in the late fourteenth century, Wyclif's thought was condemned at the Council of Constance in 1415. While lollardy has attracted much attention in recent years, much of what we think we know about this English religious movement is based on records of heresy trials and anti-lollard chroniclers. In Feeling Like Saints, Fiona Somerset demonstrates that this approach has limitations. A better basis is the five hundred or so manuscript books from the period (1375–1530) containing materials translated, composed, or adapted by lollard writers themselves.These writings provide rich evidence for how lollard writers collaborated with one another and with their readers to produce a distinctive religious identity based around structures of feeling. Lollards wanted to feel like saints. From Wyclif they drew an extraordinarily rigorous ethic of mutual responsibility that disregarded both social status and personal risk. They recalled their commitment to this ethic by reading narratives of physical suffering and vindication, metaphorically martyring themselves by inviting scorn for their zeal, and enclosing themselves in the virtues rather than the religious cloister. Yet in many ways they were not that different from their contemporaries, especially those with similar impulses to exceptional holiness.

Author : Shannon McSheffrey
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203968
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Heresy written by Shannon McSheffrey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shannon McSheffrey studies the communities of the late medieval English heretics, the Lollards, and presents unexpected conclusions about the precise ways in which gender shaped participation and interaction within the movement.

Author : Margaret Aston
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826431836
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lollards and Reformers written by Margaret Aston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1984-07-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written on the connections between Lollardy and the Reformation, this collection of essays is the first detailed and satisfactory interpretation of many aspects of the problem. Margaret Aston shows how Protestant Reformers derived encouragement from their predecessors, while interpreting Lollards in the light of their own faith. This highly readable book makes an important contribution to the history of the Reformation, bringing to life the men and women of a movement interesting for its own sake and for the light it sheds on the religious and intellectual history of the period.

Author : Robert Lutton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0861932838
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lollardy and Orthodox Religion in Pre-Reformation England written by Robert Lutton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of how, in certain parts of sixteenth-century England, challenges to conventional piety anticipated the Reformation. Here is a richly detailed account of the relationship between Lollard heresy and orthodox religion before the English Reformation. Robert Lutton examines the pious practices and dispositions of families and individuals in relationto the orthodox institutions of parish, chapel and guild, and the beliefs and activities of Wycliffite heretics. He takes issue with portrayals of orthodox religion as buoyant and harmonious, and demonstrates that late medieval piety was increasingly diverse and the parish community far from stable or unified. By investigating the generation of family wealth and changing attitudes to its disposal through inheritance and pious giving in the important Lollard centre of Tenterden in Kent, he suggests that rapid economic development and social change created the conditions for a significant cultural shift. This study contends that in certain parts of England by the early sixteenth century piety was subject to dramatic changes which, in a number of important ways, anticipated the Reformation. Dr ROBERT LUTTON teaches in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham.

Author : Margaret Deanesly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lollard Bible and Other Medieval Biblical Versions written by Margaret Deanesly and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Hudson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198227625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Premature Reformation written by Anne Hudson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most complete account yet of Lollardy, the medieval English heretical movement derived from the ideas of John Wyclif that anticipated many of the ideas and demands of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reformers and Puritans. Considering new evidence--such as texts composed or assembled by adherents of Lollardy, episcopal records, chronicles, and tracts written against Wyclif and his followers--Hudson offers an exceptionally coherent picture of the movement, sheds new light on the reasoning that lay behind the radical opinions of Wyclif's disciples, and demonstrates that the concern shown by ecclesiastical authorities may have been justified.

Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784786888
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People written by Christopher Hill and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written? John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalled the Bible in popularity in the English-speaking world. In A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People, Christopher Hill reassesses the well-known author to recover Bunyan’s significance as a preacher—a man whose nonconformist religion led him into conflict with the Quakers and resulted in long years of imprisonment. It was while confined that he wrote his most famous works. This classic biography by one of the leading historians of the seventeenth century offers an extraordinary insight into one of Britain’s most influential writers.