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" Literature and heresy in the age of Chaucer / "
Andrew Cole.
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BL
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958828
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b713198
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Cole, Andrew,1968-
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Literature and heresy in the age of Chaucer /\ Andrew Cole.
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2008.
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Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;; 71
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1 online resource (xx, 297 pages)
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0511422520
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0521887917
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9780521887915
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285)-and indexes.
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The invention of heresy. The Blackfriars Council, London, 1382 -- The late fourteenth century: canonizing Wycliffism. The invention of "lollardy": William Langland ; The reinvention of "lollardy": William Langland and his contemporaries ; Intermezzo: Wycliffism is not "lollardy" ; Geoffrey Chaucer's Wycliffite text -- The early fifteenth century: heretics and eucharists. Thomas Hoccleve's heretics ; John Lydgate's eucharists -- Feeling Wycliffite. Margery Kempe's "lollard" shame -- Epilogue. Heresy, Wycliffism, and English literary history.
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After the late fourteenth century, English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate, far from eschewing Wycliffism out of fear of censorship or partisan distaste, viewed Wycliffite ideas as a distinctly new intellectual resource. Andrew Cole offers a complete historical account of the first official condemnation of Wycliffism - the Blackfriars council of 1382 - and the fullest study of 'lollardy' as a social and literary construct. Drawing on literary criticism, history, theology and law, he presents not only a fresh perspective on late medieval literature, but also an invaluable rethinking of the Wycliffite heresy. Literature and Heresy restores Wycliffism to its proper place as the most significant context for late medieval English writing, and thus for the origins of English literary history.
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Wycliffe, John,-1384-- Influence.
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Wycliffe, John,-1384
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Canon (Literature)-- History-- To 1500.
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Christian heresies in literature.
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English literature-- Middle English, 1100-1500-- History and criticism.
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Literature and society-- England-- History-- To 1500.
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Lollards in literature.
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Theology in literature.
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Canon (Literature)
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Christian heresies in literature.
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English literature-- Middle English.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature and society.
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Lollards in literature.
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Theology in literature.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/001
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PR255.C65 2008eb
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