Visions of Inclusion: Universal Salvation and Vernacular Theology in Pre-Reformation England

Author / Editor
Watson, Nicholas.

Title
Visions of Inclusion: Universal Salvation and Vernacular Theology in Pre-Reformation England

Published
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27 (1997): 145-87.

Description
The belief that all humanity will attain salvation occurs with surprising frequency in Middle English writings. Though influenced by Latin theology, the sentiment was generated primarily by English and Anglo-Norman vernacular culture. PF shows the limits of such universalism, as well as the potential power of the motif.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.