The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts

by Kantik Ghosh

Book Overview

Kantik Ghosh argues that one of the main reasons for Lollardy's sensational resonance for its times, and for its immediate posterity, was its exposure of fundamental problems in late medieval academic engagement with the Bible, its authority and its polemical uses. Examining Latin and English sources, Ghosh shows how the same debates over biblical hermeneutics and associated methodologies were from the 1380s onwards conducted both within and outside...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521109876
• ISBN13: 9780521109871
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"