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  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Lollardy
Lollardy or Lollardry was the political and religious movement of the Lollards in late 14th century and early 15th century England.
The origins of Lollardy can be found in the teachings of John Wyclif, a prominent theologian at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1350s.
Lollardy was initially supported by John of Gaunt, who gave it some protection and legitimacy.
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  Lollardy
Lollardy or Lollardry was the political and religious movement of the Lollards in late 14th century and early 15th century England.
The origins of Lollardy can be found in the teachings of John Wyclif, a prominent theologian at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1350s.
Lollardy was initially supported by John of Gaunt, who gave it some protection and legitimacy.
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 Lollardy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lollardy or Lollardry was the political and religious movement of the Lollards from the late 14th century to early in the time of the Political Reformation.
Lollardy followed from the teachings of John Wyclif, a prominent theologian at the University of Oxford beginning in the 1350s.
The extent of Lollardy in the general populace at this time is also unknown, but the prevalence of Protestant iconoclasm in England suggests Lollard ideas may still have had some popular influence if Zwingli was not the source, as Lutherans did not advocate iconoclasm.
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 Lollards
As the chief opponents of Lollardy in the fifteenth century, Thomas of Walden and Richard Pecock both pointed out that the belief in the sufficiency of Scripture lay at the basis of Wycliffite teaching, for it provided an alternative to the authority of the Church.
The troubled days of Richard II at the close of the fourteenth century had encouraged the spread of Lollardy, and the accession of the House of Lancaster in 1399 was followed by an attempt to reform and restore constitutional authority in Church and State.
But though Lollardy thus remained alive, "conquered but not extinguished," as Erasmus expressed it in 1523, until the New Learning was brought into the country from Germany, it was a movement which for at least half a century had exercised little or no influence on English thought.
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 Lollards - LoveToKnow 1911
The main practical thought with Wycliffe was that the church, if true to her divine mission, must aid men to live that life of evangelical poverty by which they could be separate from the world and imitate Christ, and if the church ceased to be true to her mission she ceased to be a church.
Lollardy was most flourishing and most dangerous to the ecclesiastical organization of England during the ten years after Wycliffe's death.
In the earlier stages of Lollardy, when the court and the clergy managed to bring Lollards before ecclesiastical tribunals backed by the civil power, the accused generally recanted and showed no disposition to endure martyrdom for their opinions.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lollards
Probably the best summary of Lollardy, at least in its earlier stages, is to be found in the twelve "Conclusions" which were presented to Parliament and affixed to the doors of Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's in 1395.
As the chief opponents of Lollardy in the fifteenth century, Thomas of Walden and Richard
But though Lollardy thus remained alive, "conquered but not extinguished," as Erasmus expressed it in 1523, until the New Learning was brought into the country from Germany, it was a movement which for at least half a century had exercised little or no influence on
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lollardy or Lollardry was the political and religious movement of the Lollards from the late 14th century to early in the time of the English Reformation.
Lollard, Lollardi or Loller was the popular derogatory nickname given to those without an academic background, educated if at all only in English, who were reputed to follow the teachings of John Wycliffe in particular, and were certainly considerably energised by the translation of the Bible into the English.
Although Lollardy can be said to have originated in the writings of John Wyclif, the Lollards had no central doctrine.
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 Lollardy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
'''Lollardy''' or Lollardry was the political and religious movement of the Lollards from the late 14th century to early Reformation England.
At first, Wyclif and Lollardy were protected by John of Gaunt and anti-clerical nobility, who were most likely interested in using Lollard-advocated clerical reform to create a new source of revenue from England’s monasteries.
Since Lollardy had been underground for more than a hundred years, the extent of Lollardy and its ideas at the time of the Reformation is uncertain and a point of debate.
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 Search Results for "Lollardy"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The old centres of Lollardy, nevertheless, remained; the activity of Lollard writers, in adding...
The districts which were centres of his teaching long remained centres of Lollardy, although the views of the later Lollards can hardly be held the...
IV of Lollardy and the Reformation (1904), p.
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Causes of the Spread of Lollardy Till the latter part of the fourteenth century England had been remarkably free from heresy.
The Beginnings of Lollardy During the earlier part of his public career Wyclif had come forward as an ally of the anti-clerical and anti-papal nobility, and especially of John of Gaunt.
Outline of the History of the Lollards The troubled days of Richard II at the close of the fourteenth century had encouraged the spread of Lollardy, and the accession of the House of Lancaster in 1399 was followed by an attempt to reform and restore constitutional authority in Church and State.
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 Britannia History: Lollardy
This belief also brought Lollardy into the realms of heresy because it denied that 'wene that Godis bodi, that neuere schal out of heuene, be uertu of the prestis wordis schulde ben closid essenciali in a litil bred that thei schewe to the puple'.
This was a denial of the central mystery of the medieval mass and posed a direct challenge to the Church.
The reason that Lollardy posed a threat to the Church at this time was because some members of the nobility, including some at the King's Court, were attracted to Lollard ideas.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lollardy was a late medieval reform movement ca.
Between 1384 and 1396, a large Lollardic compilation known as the Floretum was produced and widely circulated, as well as the Bible translation, and this suggests that money and organization were available.
Between 1450–1517, Lollardy was almost wholly restricted to the rural districts, and little mention is made of it in contemporary records.
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 English Dissenters: Lollards
Lollardy as a sect, an out grow of Wycliffe's writings, was becoming extremely popular within Oxford University, and the town itself.
Lollardy was condemned by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1382.
He was a convert to Lollardy, he was banished from Oxford with Wyclif.
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 The Bible in the Renaissance - William Tyndale
Nevertheless, Lollardy was continually felt to remain a danger, and the witchhunt against it continued.
Lollardy seems to have merged almost seamlessly into Lutheranism, and in the early years of the sixteenth century investigations for heresy continue to turn up the same themes: John Godwyn is reported in 1504 to have held that images are only ‘stokkis and stones’, pilgrimages are pointless and so is confession to a priest.
This is a confrontation between traditional attitudes and the impetus of Lollardy which had been smouldering in the countryside for a century and a half.
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 Lollardy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lollardy also emphasized the authority of the Scriptures over against the authority of priests.
This change in policy was also hastened by the removal of John of Gaunt from the scene, when he left England in pursuit of the throne of Castile, which he claimed through his second wife.
This is one of few proofs of Lollardy persisting after it had largely collapsed.
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 Florilegium urbanum - Religion - Town authorities accused of abetting Lollardy
The mayor has drawn into his circle of advisors William Northwold, a Lollard and one who engages in instructing and taking confession from those lay people of the town who are Lollards, without licence from the Bishop.
All vulgar persons corrupted by Lollardy who come into the town are received with courtesy and treated better than others, as if they were prophets.
There is no indication that he brought up the matter of Lollardy, though he might have used that to suggest why the action had been taken against him.
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 ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
There is some drama at the beginning of the century in the development of Lollardy, the only widespread popular English heresy of the Middle Ages.
These devotional writings gave Lollardy a greater appeal to substantial laymen and women than it would have had if it had been transmitted by word of mouth only.
Nevertheless Lollardy, if very much a minority cult, continued to spread and still had a certain appeal to educated and pious laymen.
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 ORB - Florilegium urbanum - Religion - Town authorities accused of abetting Lollardy
The mayor has drawn into his circle of advisors William Northwold, a Lollard and one who engages in instructing and taking confession from those lay people of the town who are Lollards, without licence from the Bishop.
All vulgar persons corrupted by Lollardy who come into the town are received with courtesy and treated better than others, as if they were prophets.
There is no indication that he brought up the matter of Lollardy, though he might have used that to suggest why the action had been taken against him.
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 The Lollard Society: Bibliography of Secondary Sources
"William Langland and the Invention of Lollardy." Somerset, Havens, and Pitard 37-58.
She goes on to clarify that Lollardy was not a nationalistic heretical movement but nevertheless, "Lollards were at some level conscious of their role in the emergence of an English nationalism; at the same time the language of their texts seems reliant upon a preexistent idea of an English national identity" (98).]
"Laicus Litteratus: The Paradox of Lollardy." Biller and Hudson 222-236.
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 History of Our English Bible
But his followers, who were not troubled with need of theories, were content to allege that a church which held large landed possessions, collected tithes greedily, and took money from starving peasants for baptizing, burying, and praying, could not be the church of Christ and his apostles.
Lollardy was flourishing, and most dangerous to the ecclesiastical organization of England, during the ten years after Wickliffe's death.
If the formal statements of the Lollard creed are to be gotten from these conclusions, the popular view of their controversy with the church may be gathered from the ballads preserved in the collection of political poems and songs relating to English history.
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 Bowles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She is accused of being a heretic, and her "voice" in the book is one that results from the pressure she feels from the church's effort to squelch any other view than its own.
She continues to address the problems of obedience to the orthodox belief of the church, especially in the early chapters.
Although her beliefs and behaviors closely relate to the practices of the Lollards, she is considered more of a mystical reformer who uses Lollardy to reveal the church's abuse of property, authority, and women.
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 Heresy in the Late Middle Ages - Knox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Church viewed Oxford as a hotbed of Lollardy and soon moved against it.
Enforcement of the proclamations against Lollardy was put in the hands of the bishops of England and they were very uneven.
The result was that pockets of Lollardy persisted, generally centered around one or two effective preachers.
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 Alibris: Lollards
This is the most complete account yet of Lollardy, the medieval English heretical movement derived from the ideas of John Wyclif that anticipated many of the ideas and demands of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reformers and Puritans.
Inspired and influenced by the writings of the heretical fourteenth-century Oxford professor John Wyclif, Lollardy was the spiritual predecessor of the sixteenth century Reformation movement...
While much has been written on the connections between Lollardy and the Reformation, this collection of essays is the first detailed and satisfactory interpretation of many aspects of the problem.
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 Lollards | Lollardy | Lollardry | Questia.com Online Library
...This is a study of the Wycliffite heresy, otherwise known as Lollardy, which flourished in England in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.
Lollardy and the Reformation in England: An Historical Survey, Vol.
The Drama of Dissent: The Radical Poetics of Nonconformity, 1380-1590 (Chap.
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 Banana Enterprises presents "'Pearl', 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', and Christianity" by Damian T. Lloyd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lollardy was one reaction to the church's apparent loss of direction.
While the poems may seem to approve of Lollardy, we would be in error in believing that.
Gawain does mention in passing St. Julian (774) and St. Peter (813), but is otherwise free of the host of saints that populate Catholic mythology, and "whose heroism is regularly invoked by other religious texts," (Watson 309).
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