This is a study of the Wycliffite heresy, otherwise known as Lollardy, which flourished in England in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Kantik Ghosh examines major texts by John Wyclif, William Woodford, Nicolas Love, Thomas Netter as well as the anonymous authors of the English Wycliffite Sermons, along with a wide range of scholastic, homiletic and meditative texts in Latin and English. Whatever the ultimate fate of Lollardy as a religious movement, he reveals that the debates it initiated successfully changed the intellectual landscape of England.
Author(s): Kantik Ghosh
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 312
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 6
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
1 John Wyclif and the truth of sacred scripture......Page 38
JUDGES 9......Page 41
‘IMPROPER’ LANGUAGE......Page 44
PARABLES......Page 48
THE FOUR SENSES OF SCRIPTURE......Page 51
INTENTIO AUCTORIS......Page 58
CONTEXT......Page 61
'LOGIC' AND 'REASON'......Page 63
TEXTUAL CRITICISM......Page 70
'FIDES EST SUMMA THEOLOGIA'......Page 76
CONCLUSION......Page 77
2 William Woodford's anti-Wycliffite hermeneutics......Page 83
3 Vernacular translations of the Bible and ‘authority’......Page 102
4 The English Wycliffite sermons: ‘thinking in alternatives’?......Page 128
5 Nicholas Love and the Lollards......Page 163
6 Thomas Netter and John Wyclif: hermeneutic confrères?......Page 190
Afterword: Lollardy and late-medieval intellectuality......Page 225
Introduction......Page 233
1 John Wyclif and the truth of sacred scripture......Page 239
2 William Woodford’s anti-Wycliffite hermeneutics......Page 246
3 Vernacular translations of the Bible and 'authority'......Page 253
4 The English Wycliffite sermons: ‘thinking in alternatives’?......Page 258
5 Nicholas Love and the Lollards......Page 263
6 Thomas Netter and John Wyclif: hermeneutic confrères?......Page 270
Afterword: Lollardy and late-medieval intellectuality......Page 275
Cambridge......Page 279
New York......Page 280
Vienna......Page 281
Other primary sources......Page 282
SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 284
Index of names and titles......Page 307
General index......Page 310
