Medievalists.net » Lollards http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Why Study Heresy in the Later Middle Ages? http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/19/study-heresy-later-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/19/study-heresy-later-middle-ages/#comments Mon, 19 May 2014 17:17:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49716 An interview of Dr. Rob Lutton by Tom O'Loughlin for the University of Nottingham's Department of Theology and Religious Studies

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/19/study-heresy-later-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Lay Preaching and the Lollards of Norwich Diocese, 1428-1431 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/lay-preaching-and-the-lollards-of-norwich-diocese-1428-1431/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/lay-preaching-and-the-lollards-of-norwich-diocese-1428-1431/#comments Sat, 25 Jan 2014 11:38:03 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46968 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/25/lay-preaching-and-the-lollards-of-norwich-diocese-1428-1431/feed/ 0 The Orthodox Heresies: ‘Lollardy’ and Medieval Culture http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/23/the-orthodox-heresies-lollardy-and-medieval-culture/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/23/the-orthodox-heresies-lollardy-and-medieval-culture/#comments Thu, 23 Jan 2014 22:27:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46947 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/23/the-orthodox-heresies-lollardy-and-medieval-culture/feed/ 0 Literacy as Heresy: Lollards and the Spread of Literacy http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/28/literacy-as-heresy-lollards-and-the-spread-of-literacy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/28/literacy-as-heresy-lollards-and-the-spread-of-literacy/#comments Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:44:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34253 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/28/literacy-as-heresy-lollards-and-the-spread-of-literacy/feed/ 0 Bogomils, Cathars, Lollards, and the High Social Position of Women During the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/24/bogomils-cathars-lollards-and-the-high-social-position-of-women-during-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/24/bogomils-cathars-lollards-and-the-high-social-position-of-women-during-the-middle-ages/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:22:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33128 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/24/bogomils-cathars-lollards-and-the-high-social-position-of-women-during-the-middle-ages/feed/ 0 Lollard Theology: A Soteriological Analysis of the English Wycliffite Sermon Cycle http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/17/lollard-theology-a-soteriological-analysis-of-the-english-wycliffite-sermon-cycle/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/17/lollard-theology-a-soteriological-analysis-of-the-english-wycliffite-sermon-cycle/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:11:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31074 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/17/lollard-theology-a-soteriological-analysis-of-the-english-wycliffite-sermon-cycle/feed/ 0 “Neither Mine Nor Thine”: Communist Experiments in Hussite Bohemia http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/neither-mine-nor-thine-communist-experiments-in-hussite-bohemia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/neither-mine-nor-thine-communist-experiments-in-hussite-bohemia/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:48:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29444 Because of such circumstances the intoxicating influence of idealism and utopia continued to be pressed forward. One pervasive ideal was communism.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/20/neither-mine-nor-thine-communist-experiments-in-hussite-bohemia/feed/ 0 Bohemia in English Religious Controversy before the Henrician Reformation http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/04/bohemia-in-english-religious-controversy-before-the-henrician-reformation/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/04/bohemia-in-english-religious-controversy-before-the-henrician-reformation/#comments Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:39:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24935 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 […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/04/bohemia-in-english-religious-controversy-before-the-henrician-reformation/feed/ 0 Remembering Doomsday:Memoria in late medieval English drama and iconography http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/09/remembering-doomsdaymemoria-in-late-medieval-english-drama-and-iconography/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/09/remembering-doomsdaymemoria-in-late-medieval-english-drama-and-iconography/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:31:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=16798 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 […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/09/remembering-doomsdaymemoria-in-late-medieval-english-drama-and-iconography/feed/ 0 Representation in the Gesta Henrici Quinti http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/31/representation-in-the-gesta-henrici-quinti/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/31/representation-in-the-gesta-henrici-quinti/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:29:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=16321 ‘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.’

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