Middle English Bible - A Reassessment

Henry Ansgar Kelly is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of many books, including Satan: A Biography.

List of contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. A History of Judgments on the Middle English Bible

Chapter 2. Five and Twenty Books as "Official" Prologue, or Not

Chapter 3. The Bible at Oxford

Chapter 4. Oxford Doctors, Archbishop Arundel and Dives and Pauper on the Advisability of Scripture in English

Chapter 5. The Provincial Constitutions of 1407

Chapter 6. Treatment of the English Bible in the Fifteenth Century

Chapter 7. End of the Story: Richard Hunne and Thomas More

Conclusion

Appendices

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the author

Henry Ansgar Kelly is Distinguished Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of many books, including Satan: A Biography.

Summary

Translated shortly before 1400, the Bible became the most popular medieval book in English. Prevailing scholarly opinion calls it the Wycliffite Bible, attributing it to followers of the heretic John Wyclif, and claims it was banned in 1407. Henry Ansgar Kelly disagrees, arguing it was a nonpartisan effort and never the object of any prohibition.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Ansgar Kelly, Professor Henry Ansgar Kelly
• Assisted by: Ruth Mazo Karras (Editor)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780812248340
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4834-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Middle Ages; Middle Ages; The Middle Ages Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies