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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.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
