The Wycliffite heresy : authority and the interpretation of texts

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The Wycliffite heresy : authority and the interpretation of texts

Title remainder

authority and the interpretation of texts

Statement of responsibility

Kantik Ghosh

Creator

• Ghosh, Kantik, 1967-

Subject

• Lollards
• Religion and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500

Language

eng

Summary

"Kantik Ghosh argues that one of the main reasons for Lollardy's sensational resonance for its times, and for its immediate posterity, was its exposure of fundamental problems in late-medieval academic engagement with the Bible, its authority and its polemical uses. Examining Latin and English sources, Ghosh shows how the same debates over biblical hermeneutics and associated methodologies were from the 1380s onwards conducted both within and outside the traditional university framework, and how, by eliding boundaries between Latinate biblical speculation and vernacular religiosity, Lollardy changed the cultural and political positioning of both. Covering a wide range of texts - scholastic and extramural, in Latin and in English, written over half a century from Wyclif to Thomas Netter - Ghosh concludes that by the first decades of the fifteenth century Lollardy had partly won the day. Whatever its fate as a religious movement, it had successfully changed the intellectual landscape of England."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• Cambridge studies in medieval literature, 45

Cataloging source

UKM

Dewey number

820.9001

Index

index present

LC call number

BS480

LC item number

.G48 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in medieval literature

Series volume

45