Feeling Like Saints – Lollard Writings after Wyclif Somerset Hardback

Feeling Like SaintsLollard Writings After Wyclif\nAuthor(s): Fiona Somerset\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801452819, 978-0801452819\nSynopsis\n\""Lollard\"" is the name given to followers of John Wyclif, the English dissident theologian who was dismissed from Oxford University in 1381 for his arguments regarding the eucharist. A forceful and influential critic of the ecclesiastical status quo in the late fourteenth century, Wyclif's thought was condemned at the Council of Constance in 1415. While lollardy has attracted much attention in recent years, much of what we think we know about this English religious movement is based on records of heresy trials and anti-lollard chroniclers. In Feeling Like Saints, Fiona Somerset demonstrates that this approach has limitations. A better basis is the five hundred or so manuscript books from the period [tel] containing materials translated, composed, or adapt.