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Author Cole, Andrew, 1968-

Title Literature and heresy in the age of Chaucer / Andrew Cole.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 297 pages).
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Series Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 71
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 71.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285)-and indexes.
Contents 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.
Summary 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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Subject Wycliffe, John, -1384 -- Influence.
Wycliffe, John, -1384.
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
Christian heresies in literature.
Christian heresies in literature.
Lollards in literature.
Lollards in literature.
Theology in literature.
Theology in literature.
Canon (Literature) -- History -- To 1500.
Canon (Literature)
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500.
Literature and society.
England.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Cole, Andrew, 1968- Literature and heresy in the age of Chaucer. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521887915 (DLC) 2008011346 (OCoLC)212858789
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