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Informationen zum Autor Since 1992! Shannon McSheffrey has taught in the History Department at Concordia University in Montreal. She has written Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities! 1420-1530 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press! 1995)! Love and Marriage in Late Medieval London (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Press! 1995). Klappentext Coventry, one of late medieval England's major cities, harbored an important community of heretics, known as Lollards, in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. This volume presents all the known records concerning these heretics, in the original languages of Latin and medieval English as well as in a modern English translation. The documents offer new insights into the nature of religious dissent in England prior to the first stirrings of the English Reformation. Zusammenfassung Coventry harboured an important community of Lollards in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. This volume presents all known evidence related to these heretics and! framed by a contextual introduction! offers new insights into the nature of religious dissent in England just prior to the English Reformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Editorial procedure; Abbreviations; Introduction: The prosecution of heresy in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, 1486?22; The charges and the defendants' beliefs; The defendants and the practice of Lollardy; The documents; Part I. Chronology of Examinations of Coventry Lollard Suspects, 1486?22: Part II. Prosecution of The Coventry Lollards in the Ecclesiastical Records, 1486?22, 1486?03,1511?12: Abjurations, 1511?12, Undated fragments, c. 1511?12, 1515?22, Explanatory notes; Part III. Prosecution of the Coventry Lollards in Foxe's Martyrologies and in the Coventry Civic Annals: Explanatory notes; Appendix 1. Suspects named in the Coventry heresy prosecutions, 1486?22; Appendix 2. Books named in the records of Coventry heresy prosecutions, 1486?22; Appendix 3. Clerics and others present at Coventry heresy prosecutions, 1486?22; Index....
