Wycliffite Heresy - Authority and the Interpretation of Texts

Informationen zum Autor Kantik Ghosh is DARBY Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He has contributed articles to Poetica, New Medieval Literatures, and the Scottish Literary Journal. This is his first book. Klappentext Studies how the debates initiated by the Wycliffite heresy changed the intellectual landscape of England. Zusammenfassung A study of the Wycliffite heresy! otherwise known as Lollardy! which flourished in England in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Kantik Ghosh shows that! whatever the fate of Lollardy as a religious movement! the debates it initiated changed the intellectual landscape of England. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. John Wyclif and the truth of sacred scripture; 2. William Woodford's anti-Wycliffite hermeneutics; 3. Vernacular translations of the Bible and 'authority; 4. The English Wycliffite sermons: 'thinking in alternatives'?; 5. Nicholas Love and the Lollards; 6. Thomas Netter and John Wyclif: hermeneutic confreres?; Afterword: Lollardy and late-medieval intellectuality; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Kantik Ghosh, Kantik (University of Oxford) Ghosh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521109871
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10987-1
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies