Medievalists.net » Wycliffe http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/14/john-gaunt-john-wyclif/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 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 Bogomilism: An Important Precursor of the Reformation http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/11/bogomilism-%e2%80%94-an-important-precursor-of-the-reformation/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/11/bogomilism-%e2%80%94-an-important-precursor-of-the-reformation/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:21:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=27866 Our particular task here is to give proof of the presence of Bogomil and Cathar ideas and motivations in the works of the brightest reformation triad: John Wycliffe — Jan Hus — Martin Luther, by means of facts, documented links and associations.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/12/11/bogomilism-%e2%80%94-an-important-precursor-of-the-reformation/feed/ 0 An Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/08/an-introduction-to-olympia-morata-a-forgotten-feminist-voice-from-sixteenth-century-italy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/08/an-introduction-to-olympia-morata-a-forgotten-feminist-voice-from-sixteenth-century-italy/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:42:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25144 An Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy Webb, Val (Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN) Sea Changes, Vol.1 (2001) Abstract I met Olympia Morata in the British Library while searching for women lost from history. My search word ‘heroine’ uncovered an 1864 inspirational collection Heroines of the Household. Olympia was the […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/08/an-introduction-to-olympia-morata-a-forgotten-feminist-voice-from-sixteenth-century-italy/feed/ 0 From Trial to Text http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/from-trial-to-text/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/from-trial-to-text/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:02:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=17496 From Trial to Text de Hamel, Dr. Christopher Marginalia, Vol.5 (2007) Abstract MS 147 in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College was very possibly the actual volume produced as evidence in the heresy trial of Richard Hunne, merchant tailor of London, who was charged with Lollardy in December 1514. It is a fifteenth-century manuscript […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/25/from-trial-to-text/feed/ 0 The Lexical Contribution of Wycliffe’s Bible English to the History of the English Language http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/the-lexical-contribution-of-wycliffes-bible-english-to-the-history-of-the-english-language/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/the-lexical-contribution-of-wycliffes-bible-english-to-the-history-of-the-english-language/#comments Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:33:20 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=14728 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 […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/01/02/the-lexical-contribution-of-wycliffes-bible-english-to-the-history-of-the-english-language/feed/ 0 Reading Devotion. Asceticism and Affectivity in Love’s Mirror http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/30/reading-devotion-asceticism-and-affectivity-in-loves-mirror/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/30/reading-devotion-asceticism-and-affectivity-in-loves-mirror/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:43:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=14550 In this article, I will examine the affective elements of Love's Mirror in an effort to re-evaluate its connections to late-medieval devotional culture.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/12/30/reading-devotion-asceticism-and-affectivity-in-loves-mirror/feed/ 0 John Wyclif’s Neoplatonic View of Scripture in its Christological ContextJohn Wyclif’s Neoplatonic View of Scripture in its Christological Context http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/21/john-wyclif%e2%80%99s-neoplatonic-view-of-scripture-in-its-christological-contextjohn-wyclif%e2%80%99s-neoplatonic-view-of-scripture-in-its-christological-context/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/21/john-wyclif%e2%80%99s-neoplatonic-view-of-scripture-in-its-christological-contextjohn-wyclif%e2%80%99s-neoplatonic-view-of-scripture-in-its-christological-context/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:57:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=12743 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 […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2010/11/21/john-wyclif%e2%80%99s-neoplatonic-view-of-scripture-in-its-christological-contextjohn-wyclif%e2%80%99s-neoplatonic-view-of-scripture-in-its-christological-context/feed/ 0 Analogy and Formal Distinction: On the Logical Basis of Wyclif’s Metaphysics http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/08/analogy-and-formal-distinction-on-the-logical-basis-of-wyclifs-metaphysics/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/08/analogy-and-formal-distinction-on-the-logical-basis-of-wyclifs-metaphysics/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:08:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=11094 Analogy and Formal Distinction: On the Logical Basis of Wyclif’s Metaphysics Conti, Alessandro D. (La Maddalena, Italy) Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 2 (1997) Abstract John Wyclif (born near Richmond, Yorkshire, before 1330-died Lutterworth, Leicestershire, 31 Dec. 1384) was one of the most important and authoritative thinkers of the late Middle Ages. Not […]

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