Literature and heresy in the age of Chaucer

By Andrew Cole

Subjects: English literature, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, History, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, English literature, Theology in literature, Canon (Literature), Influence, History and criticism, Christian heresies in literature, Literature and society, Literature, medieval, history and criticism, Lollards in literature, Heresies, Christian, in literature

Description: After the late 14th century, English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Chaucer, Langland, John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate, far from eschewing Wycliffism, viewed it as a distinctly new intellectual resource.