Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer

by Andrew Cole

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521179831

ISBN13:9780521179836

Release Date:November 2011

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:322 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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