The school of heretics
Subtitle: academic condemnation at the University of Oxford, 1277-1409
By: by Andrew E. Larsen
Series: Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- v. 40; Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- v. 40.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9789004206618
Subjects: University of Oxford; Academic freedom; Lollards; Freedom of speech; Censorship; Faculty; Heresy; Criminal investigation; Legal status, laws; History
Description: "This work is the first book-length study of academic condemnations at Oxford. It explores every known case in detail, including several never examined before, and then considers the practice of condemnation as a whole. As such, it provides a context to see John Wyclif and the Oxford Lollards not as unique figures, but as targets of a practice a century old by 1377. It argues that condemnation did not happen purely for reasons of theological purity, but reflected social and institutional pressures within the university."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.