The Premature Reformation

Book Summary


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.

Book Details


Book Name The Premature Reformation
Author Anne Hudson
Publisher Oxford University Press, Usa (Aug 1988)
ISBN 9780198227625
Pages 568
Language English
Price 8180
 
 

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