An interview of Dr. Rob Lutton by Tom O’Loughlin for the University of Nottingham’s Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Lay Preaching and the Lollards of Norwich Diocese, 1428-1431
January 25, 2014 By
The following case-study of Lollards in Norwich diocese is in two parts. The basis for the study is a collection of records of heresy trials in the diocese of Norwich from 2 1428 to 1431.
The Orthodox Heresies: ‘Lollardy’ and Medieval Culture
January 23, 2014 By
This is not Margery Kempe’s first run-in with the law. Already, she has been accused multiple times of heresy, of wantonness, and of being a general pest.
Literacy as Heresy: Lollards and the Spread of Literacy
July 28, 2012 By
An examination of the literacy habits of the Lollards, a heretical sect of the Middle Ages, will, I hope, provide a needed historical context for our concern today with literacy, technology, and responsibility.
Bogomils, Cathars, Lollards, and the High Social Position of Women During the Middle Ages
June 24, 2012 By
During the 12th century, if not slightly earlier, Western Europe lived through a period of economic and social upheavel termed by many historians the 12th c. Renaissance. One of its aspects is related to the considerable emancipation of women mostly in Southern France, a development which spread over to Italy, Flanders, and later, England. One can even detect social zones where real emancipation was axhieved.
Lollard Theology: A Soteriological Analysis of the English Wycliffite Sermon Cycle
April 17, 2012 By
Prototestant ideas are evident throughout Wyclif’s later works and the flood of Wycliffite tracts and writings
which were published in the late 1370′s and 80′s; but they are most clearly and systematically communicated in the collection of English Wycliffite sermons which were compiled, one sermon for each of the services in the church calendar year, sometime near, or soon after, the end of Wyclif’s life.
“Neither Mine Nor Thine”: Communist Experiments in Hussite Bohemia
February 20, 2012 By
Because of such circumstances the intoxicating influence of idealism and utopia continued to be pressed forward. One pervasive ideal was communism.
Bohemia in English Religious Controversy before the Henrician Reformation
September 4, 2011 By
Bohemia in English Religious Controversy before the Henrician Reformation By Michael Van Dussen The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, vol. 7: Papers from the Seventh International Symposium on the Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, Vila Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-23 June 2006, edited by Zdeněk V. David and David R. Holeton (Prague, 2009) Introduction: In […]
Remembering Doomsday:Memoria in late medieval English drama and iconography
February 9, 2011 By
Remembering Doomsday:Memoria in late medieval English drama and iconography Iseppi, Laura Word & Image, 25: 1 (2009) Abstract Much critical attention has been devoted in recent years to the analysis of the medieval artes memorativae. The concern with the arts of memory, as exemplified by the recently collected translations of passages from influential artes edited by […]
Representation in the Gesta Henrici Quinti
January 31, 2011 By
‘Not in the strict sense a chronicle or history, and certainly not a ‘compilation’, it is rather an original and skilful piece of propaganda in which narrative is deliberately used to further the larger theme.’
The Lexical Contribution of Wycliffe’s Bible English to the History of the English Language
January 2, 2011 By
The Lexical Contribution of Wycliffe’s Bible English to the History of the English Language Lee, Youngjoo (Korean Bible University) Language and Linguistics, Vol.35 (2005) Abstract The purpose of this study is to show that the English of the Wycliffe Bible, translated in the late fourteenth century, 100 years earlier than chancery English,) was the true forerunner […]
John Wyclif’s Neoplatonic View of Scripture in its Christological ContextJohn Wyclif’s Neoplatonic View of Scripture in its Christological Context
November 21, 2010 By
John Wyclif’s Neoplatonic View of Scripture in its Christological Context Christopher Levy, Ian (Lexington Theological Seminary) Medieval Philosophy and Theology 11 (2003) Abstract John Wyclif’s metaphysical realism is well documented, as is the role it plays in his biblical exegesis. Indeed, notable scholars have observed how Wyclif’s Christian Neoplatonism goes hand in hand with his […]
Inventing the Lollard Past : The Afterlife of a Medieval Sermon in Early Modern England
September 21, 2009 By
This essay explores the evolving significance of a famous fourteenth-century Paul’s Cross sermon by Thomas Wimbledon in late medieval and early modern England and its transmission from manuscript to print.
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