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Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Andrew Cole [Repost]

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Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Andrew Cole [Repost]

Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Andrew Cole
English | Sep 1, 2008 | ISBN: 0521887917 | 323 Pages | PDF | 1 MB

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