Wycliffism and Lollardy

Ghosh, Kantik; Rubin, Miri; Simons, Walter

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“…In sum, the texts serve as a reminder that trying to uphold orthodoxy in the 15th century involved engaging at some level with heretical strands within vernacular culture, even for a set of texts as playful and non‐polemical as these. The fabliaux therefore offer proof of Ghosh's observation that ‘the very shape of what emerged as “Lollardy”, as well as “orthodoxy”, was determined by…interplay between the two’ (Ghosh, ‘Wycliffism and Lollardy’ 435).…”

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The English Fabliau in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Parsons

2013

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The English Fabliau in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the fabliau attained a belated vogue in English. This paper offers a review of existing criticism on the English fabliaux, outlining the main issues it addresses, as well as suggesting the future directions scholarship might take. In particular, it offers a detailed analysis of how English writers after Chaucer tried to bring the fabliau genre into line with fifteenth-century notions of orthodoxy, a project which caused them to confront the challenges of the Lollard heresy in subtle but pervasive ways. It also notes that the very tactics used by the fabliaux to uphold latemedieval orthodoxy against Wycliffism rendered them all the more popular after the Reformation, despite their obvious Catholic sympathies. It is concluded that these two elements in the texts merit closer study, as they resonate with recent assessments of the period and its culture.Since Joseph Bédier revived interest in them in the 1890s, the French fabliaux have attracted an increasingly large body of commentary. These brief comic narratives in verse, focusing on trickery, violence and adultery, have been the subject of numerous studies, editions and essay-collections: the last decade alone has seen work on them by Keith Busby, Norris Levy, Holly Crocker, and several others.1 However, such attention stands in marked contrast to the critical reception of the fabliaux in English.

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The English Fabliau in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Parsons

2013

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“…The study of the Devotio Moderna in the Netherlands and of the Wycliffite and Lollard movement in England, to cite but two examples, has been flourishing since the 1980s and has produced a particularly high level of scientific results. See for example, Van Engen (2008a); Ghosh (2009). A seminal volume for the research of religious literature in the medieval Low Countries is Mertens (1993).…”

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13 Holy Writ and Lay Readers in Late Medieval Europe: Translation and Participation

Corbellini

Hoogvliet

2015

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Cultural Dynamics in Late Medieval EuropeLate medieval and early modern Europe is characterized by a significant cultural transformation. As a result of this change, the dichotomy between the categories "religious" and "lay" and "Latin" and "vernacular" dissolved into a more diffuse situation and resulted in lay emancipation with regard to active participation in religious life. One of the most significant manifestations of this cultural transformation was the creation of new "reading communities" in addition to the traditional respublica clericorum,2 the learned community of literate intellectuals and religious (secular and regular clergy) who dominated cultural life through their control of Church institutions, schools and universities. Latin, the preferred language by the members of this respublica clerico rum, was thus the official (and dominant) language of culture, science and religion.3 The new "reading communities" were formed by a non-Latinate, but generally literate, urban laity strongly involved in political, financial and commercial activities. The language of the members of this respublica laicorum, who were showing a growing interest in the organization of cultural activities and in the production of literary texts, was the vernacular, the traditional language of the illiterati and the laity.4 The growing textual production in the vernacular involved a challenge from a linguistic and a cultural point of view. It meant that the vernacular was emancipated enough to be used for the production of literature, for the transmission of knowledge, and for religious matters.5

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Wycliffism and Lollardy

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The English Fabliau in the 15th and 16th Centuries

The English Fabliau in the 15th and 16th Centuries

13 Holy Writ and Lay Readers in Late Medieval Europe: Translation and Participation

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