The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History

Author / Editor
Hudson, Anne.

Title
The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History

Published
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.

Physical Description
xii, 556 pp.

Description
Separate chapters are devoted to Lollard society, education, biblical scholarship, and the ideology of the movement as it relates to theology, ecclesiology, and politics. Chapter 9,"The Context of Vernacular Wycliffism," examines the question of Chaucer's Lollardy, especially in the Parson. Hudson assigns a more direct Lollard influence on the Reformation in England than has hitherto been suggested.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Parson and His Tale.