
Two Wycliffite Texts
The Sermon of William Taylor 1406; The Testimony of William Thorpe 1407
Anne Hudson(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 3. December 1998
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-0-19-722303-1 (ISBN)
Description
The two texts edited here concern the views of two followers of John Wyclif in the years 1406-07. The first, the only surviving sermon of William Taylor, principal of St Edmund Hall in Oxford, was preached in November 1406 at St Paul's Cross in London; the sermon, setting out radical views on ecclesiastical temporalities and clerical corruption, caused a scandal, involving Henry IV and Archbishop Arundel. The sermon and the events following it are mentioned in the second text, the Testimony of William Thorpe. Thorpe was arrested in April 1407, and sent for investigation to Arundel; the text here, found in two English and two Latin versions, is Thorpe's account of his conversations with the Archbishop. The testimony throws light on the connections between Wyclif and early Lollards, as well as outlining the dominant views of the heretics. It is, despite the apparent accuracy of much of its evidence, an interesting early example of semi-fictionalized autobiography.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
frontispiece, 1 halftone plate
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-722303-1 (9780197223031)
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