Philosophy and Politics in the Thought of John Wyclif

by Stephen E. Lahey, David E. Luscombe, Jonathan Shepard, et al.

Book Overview

John Wyclif was the fourteenth-century English thinker responsible for the first English Bible, and for the Lollard movement--persecuted widely for its attempts to reform the church through empowerment of the laity. This study argues that John Wyclif's political agenda was based on a coherent philosophical vision ultimately consistent with his earlier reformative ideas. Several of Wyclif's formal, Latin works proposed that the king should take control...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521058465
• ISBN13: 9780521058469
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"