Medievalists.net » Wyclif 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 John of Gaunt and John Wyclif http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/14/john-gaunt-john-wyclif/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/14/john-gaunt-john-wyclif/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:50:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50388 Historians have always been somewhat puzzled at the alliance of two such men as John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster and third son of Edward III, and John Wyclif, controversialist and reformer.

The post John of Gaunt and John Wyclif appeared first on Medievalists.net.

]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/14/john-gaunt-john-wyclif/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.

The post The Orthodox Heresies: ‘Lollardy’ and Medieval Culture appeared first on Medievalists.net.

]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/23/the-orthodox-heresies-lollardy-and-medieval-culture/feed/ 0 “The Taint of a Fault”: Purgatory, Relativism and Humanism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/21/the-taint-of-a-fault-purgatory-relativism-and-humanism-in-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/21/the-taint-of-a-fault-purgatory-relativism-and-humanism-in-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/#comments Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:05:41 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45072 “The Taint of a Fault”: Purgatory, Relativism and Humanism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Bill Phillips Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, No. 17 (2004) Abstract Far from being a poem about the chivalric code, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is essentially concerned with religion. The Romance genre is used to reveal the shortcomings […]

The post “The Taint of a Fault”: Purgatory, Relativism and Humanism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight appeared first on Medievalists.net.

]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/21/the-taint-of-a-fault-purgatory-relativism-and-humanism-in-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight/feed/ 0 Exploring the Connections between Metaphysics and Political Thought in the Age of Wyclif and Gerson http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/exploring-the-connections-between-metaphysics-and-political-thought-in-the-age-of-wyclif-and-gerson/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/exploring-the-connections-between-metaphysics-and-political-thought-in-the-age-of-wyclif-and-gerson/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 02:24:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37400 Russell focuses on how important late medieval thinkers such as John Wyclif (c. 1320 – 1384) and Jean Gerson (1363–1429) understood metaphysics and how this had an instrumental effect on their political thought.

The post Exploring the Connections between Metaphysics and Political Thought in the Age of Wyclif and Gerson appeared first on Medievalists.net.

]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/22/exploring-the-connections-between-metaphysics-and-political-thought-in-the-age-of-wyclif-and-gerson/feed/ 0