... ferment that was bubbling through English life in Chaucer’s time. The Master of Balliol from 1360 to 1381 (with intervals of leave) was John Wyclif ; his chief historical function was to popularize the ideas of certain Oxford thinkers who had preceded him as forerunners of Protestant- ism...

... anyone taught by Holy Church dare thus to do evil?2o Chaucerians consulting Wyclif’s sermons will find that this great divine, too, preached tolerance for the Jews. Those who persecute, he argues, are “false Christians” no better than the Jews who cru- cified Christ; in fact, Christians who...

... unspecified.”l Lychlade, thus accused of teachings inimical to the Church, was summoned to trial with Lollards. On this evidence of the Close Roll, H. B. Workman, in his book John Wyclif, calls Lychlade “a leader of the Oxford Lollards.”2 But Workman offers no other proof of Lychlade’s guilt...

...:j; and Vern Bullough, “Heresy, Witchcraft, and Sexuality,” in Sexual Practices in the Medimal Church (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1982), 206-17. 12 Dymmok, Libm contra duodecim mores et herem lollardorurn, ed. H. S. (hnin (London: Wyclif Society, 1922): “Et sic per hunc modum lasciviam...

... Archbishop of Canterbury) rigidly represents the orthodox Augustinian interpretation of man’s relationship to God. His De Causa Dei contra Pelugianos vehemently proclaims God’s grace to the exclusion of all human merit (see H. B. Workman, John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church...

.... This first volume contains long sections on the Bible and medieval exegesis, as well as chap- ters on Old English literature, Middle English biblical and apocryphal nar- ratives (Genesis and Exodus, Jacob and Joseph, Susannah, Cursor Mundi), translations of the Psalms, the Wyclif Bible, and John...

... are those to which Wyclif and his followers objected. The writings against the Lollards and the writ- ings of the Lollards themselves are filled with evidence to this effect and make it very apparent that the chief doctrine on which they conflicted with the Church...

... in this and the preceding note, I have also been profoundly influenced by Margaret Aston’s three studies, “De- votional Literacy” and “Lollardy and Literacy,” pp. 101-33 and 193-217, respectively, in Lollards and Reformers (London: Hambledon, 1984); and “Wyclif and the Vernacu- lar,” Studies in Church History...

.... 224-27 for the forty-five errors of Wyclif, pp. 255-57 for the forty-one of Luther, and passim. 4 See e.g., Theologke Cursus Complctus (Paris, 1838), XIII, 632-803. 8 E.g., A1 fonsus B Castro, Adversus Oinnes Haerescs ( Antwerp. 1556), I, 51‘. ...

... (Dictionary) ; rnalln), 4851 (&inert), 5011, 5049, tradition, 5051, 5096. 5062, 5081, 5105, 5106, 5113, 5129, Williams, Charles, 4918 (Moorman), 5130, 5134, 5135 ; Titurel, 5097. 5128, 5132. Wyclif, 5034. REVIEWS...

... tradition that included Lollards, Edwar- dian polemicists, and moderate Puritans. The author draws together as- pects of dissent from Wyclif to the Marprelate tracts and attempts to iden- tify “the genesis, articulation, and practice of a poetics grounded in ritual patterns of self-dramatization...

... in- volved from two traditions: the Piers Plowman pattern of social- Brents Stirling 113 religious protest, stemming from Langland and Wyclif, and the commonwealth tradition coming from Plato through More’s Utopia. Although characterized by fundamentally...

... uses trezcthe, a native English word which apparently thus broadened its meaning in the lat- ter part of the fourteenth century, and especially in the writings and translations of Wyclif (see NED). A systematic study of these Psalters would reveal much material on 276 Early...

... that the part of Falstaff was written originally under the name of Oldcastle. Further explanations are in order, however. In the first place, the historical Sir John Oldcastle was known in Elizabethan times as a follower of John Wyclif rather than as a thievish servant of St. Pope’s...

... Studies in English, No. 14, 1962. Pp. 223. Sw. kr. 25. Block, Edward A. John Wyclif, Radical Dissenter. San Diego: San Diego State College Press, Humanities Monograph Series, Vol. I, No. 1, 1962. Pp. 58. Bloom, Robert. The Indeterminate World: A Study of the Novels of Joyce...

... Wyclif, Radical Dissenter. San Diego: San Diego State College Press, Humanities Monograph Series, Vol. I, No. 1, 1962. Pp. 58. Bloom, Robert. The Indeterminate World: A Study of the Novels of Joyce Cary. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962. Pp. xvI + 212...

..., XXXVI (1961), 482-484. 5034. Fisher, John H. “Wyclif, Langland, Gower, and the Pearl Poet on the Subject of Aristocracy.” Studies in Medieval Literature (5065), pp. 139-157. (-4llusions to Sir Gamin and the Green Knight.) 166 -4 r t h ti r ian Bib 1iog r aphy 958...

... Works of Wyclif Hithrto Unprinted, ed. F. D. Matthew, EETS, o.s., 74 (London, 1880), p. 289. RICHARD H. OSBERG 127 mankind, in an Augustinian sense, is just passing through? These connotations of “frith” reveal with startling...

... but two examples: In order to demonstrate that Wyclif was very important for the history of the English mind as a thorough and typical Englishman, Arnold reasons: That instinct of self-assertion and self-establishment without which neither a community nor a private person can really prosper, which...

... MLQ June 2014 cer Society (1868) was followed shortly by a flourishing of single-­author MLQ  December 2011 societies, including the New Shakspere Society (1873), the Browning  Performing a New France Society (1881), the Wyclif Society (1882), the Charles...