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Ghosh Kantik <1967-> |
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The Wycliffite heresy : authority and the interpretation of texts / / Kantik Ghosh [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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0-521-10987-6 |
0-511-04438-0 |
0-511-11983-6 |
0-511-32846-X |
0-511-48328-7 |
0-511-15460-7 |
1-280-15496-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; ; 45 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-289) and indexes. |
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Introduction -- John Wyclif and the truth of sacred scripture -- William Woodford's Anti-Wycliffite hermeneutics -- Vernacular versions of the Bible and 'authority' -- The English Wycliffite sermons: 'thinking in alternatives'? -- Nicholas Love and the Lollards -- Thomas Netter and John Wyclif: hermeneutic confreres -- Afterword: Lollardy and late-Medieval intellectuality. |
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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 the traditional university framework, and how by eliding boundaries between Latinate biblical speculation and vernacular religiosity Lollardy changed the cultural and political positioning of both. Covering a wide range of texts - scholastic and extramural, in Latin and in English, |
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