Wyclif's ideas caused a major upheaval both in the country of his
birth and in the Bohemian area of central Europe; that upheaval
affected theological, ecclesiastical and political developments from
the late 14th to the early 16th centuries. Some of those ideas were
transmitted orally through Wyclif's university teaching in Oxford, and
in his preaching in London and Lutterworth, but the main medium
through which his message was disseminated was the written word, using
the universal western language of Latin. The papers in this collection
look at aspects of that dissemination, from the organization and
revision of Wyclif's works to form a summa of his ideas, the
techniques devised to identify and make accessible his multifarious
writings, the attempts of the orthodox clerical establishment to
destroy them, through to the fortunes of his texts in the Reformation
period; manuscripts written in England and those copied abroad, mostly
in Bohemia, are considered. Although most of the papers have been
published previously, a new edition of the important Hussite catalogue
of Wyclif's writings is provided, and three lengthy sections
contribute new material and additions and corrections to previous
listings of Wyclif manuscripts.
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9781000948295
Publisert
2023
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Taylor & Francis
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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