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Wyclif, John (Wycliffe, Wiclif)
lived c. 1324-1384

John Wyclif was born in Hipswell, Yorkshire and began his education at Oxford, studying mathematics, natural science and theology, finally receiving his Doctor of Divinity around 1372. Wyclif became Master of Balliol College in 1360 and was appointed by Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury, as warden of Canterbury Hall. A reformer, Wycliffe voiced his opinions about the Church in Summa theologiae and parliament in De civili dominio. Wyclif’s radical beliefs and outspokenness often caused controversy, but he was usually protected from harm by Oxford. He also believed strongly in the translation of the Bible into the vernacular and was the founder of the Lollard Movement, which was condemned as heretical because of its Scriptural emphasis, rejection of the doctrine of Transubstantiation, criticism of the wealth of the clergy and questioning of the Church’s authority. TLM

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OMSB Records by Wyclif, John:

• Hudson, Anne, ed., trans., Selections from English Wycliffite Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1978).
• Salisbury, Eve, ed., The Trials and Joys of Marriage (TEAMS Middle English Text Series. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002).
• Levy, Ian Christopher, ed., trans., On the Truth of Holy Scripture (Kalamazoo MI: Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS Commentary Series), 2001).
• Cheyney, Edward P., ed., England in the Time of Wycliffe (Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History, Vol. 2, No. 5. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1895).
• Todd, James Henthorn, ed., An apology for Lollard doctrines, attributed to Wicliffe (Camden Society 20, 1842).
• Swinburn, Lilian Mary, ed., The Lanterne of Ligt (Early English Text Society Original Series 151, 1917 [Rpt. 1999]).
• McGrade, Arthur Stephen; John Kilcullen; Kempshall, Matthew, eds, The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts, Vol II: Ethics and Political Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
• Forshall, Josiah, ed.; Madden, Frederic, ed., The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books, in the earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers (4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1850).
• Arnold, Thomas, ed., Select English works of John Wyclif (Oxford: Clarendon Press., 1869).
• Simmons, Thomas Frederick, ed.; Nolloth, Henry Edward, ed., The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin Versions of Archbishop's Thoresby's Instruction for the People (Early English Text Society Original Series 118, 1996).
• Matthew, F.D., ed., The English Works of Wyclif, Hitherto Unprinted (Early English Text Society Original Series 74, 1880 [Rpt. 1998]).
• O'Donovan, Oliver, ed.; O'Donovan, Joan Lockwood, ed., From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought 100-1625 (Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999).