'The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation' brings together contributions by leading scholars on different aspects of the first complete translation of the Bible into English, produced at the end of the 14th century by the followers of the Oxford theologian John Wyclif. Though learned and accurate, the translation was condemned and banned within twenty-five years of its appearance. In spite of this it became the most widely disseminated medieval English work that profoundly influenced the development of vernacular theology, religious writing, contemporary and later literature, and the English language. Its comprehensive study is long overdue and the current collection offers new perspectives and research on this, the most learned and widely evidenced of the European translations of the Vulgate.
Author(s): Elizabeth Solopova (ed.)
Series: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, 16
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 524
City: Leiden
Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations x
Abbreviations xii
Bibliographic Abbreviations xiv
Abbreviations for Biblical Books xviii
Notes on Contributors xxi
Introduction: New Directions in Research on the First English Bible / Elizabeth Solopova 1
Part 1. Contexts
1. The Wycliffite Bible: The Historical Context / Jeremy Catto 11
2. The Place of Holy Scripture in John Wyclif’s Theology / Ian Christopher Levy 27
3. The European Background: 'þe Bible and oþere bookis of deuociun and of exposicioun' in French / Delbert Russell 49
4. European Background: Czech Translations / Jakub Sichálek 66
5. The Wycliffites: Hosts or Guests, First Finders or Followers? / James H. Morey 85
Part 2. Text
6. The Latin Text / Anne Hudson and Elizabeth Solopova 107
7. The Origin and Textual Tradition of the Wycliffite Bible / Anne Hudson 133
8. The Prologues / Kantik Ghosh 162
9. The Wycliffite Psalms / Annie Sutherland 183
10. Dialect / Elizabeth Solopova 202
Part 3. Manuscripts
11. The Manuscript Tradition / Elizabeth Solopova 223
12. The Palaeography of the Wycliffite Bibles in Oxford / Ralph Hanna 246
13. The Decoration of Wycliffite Bibles / Lynda Dennison and Nigel Morgan 266
14 Glossing and Glosses / Michael P. Kuczynski 346
Part 4. Reception
15. The Selective Censorship of the Wycliffite Bible / Maureen Jurkowski 371
16. Nicholas Love’s 'Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ' / Michael G. Sargent 389
17. The Use of the Wycliffite Translation in Other Middle English Texts / Stephen Morrison 406
18. Reading the Wycliffite Bible in Reformation England / Mark Rankin 426
19. Editing the Wycliffite Bible / Anne Hudson 450
Select Bibliography 467
Index of Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible 484
Index of Names, Places, and Texts 493
