The premature reformation
Subtitle: Wycliffite texts and Lollard history
By: Anne Hudson.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
Subjects: Lollards -- Sources.; Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources.; Reformation -- Early movements.; Lollards.; England -- Church history -- 1066-1485 -- Sources.
Description: 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. -- ‡c From publisher's description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [518]-537.
Includes index.