Fiona
Somerset, Jill C. Havens & Derrick G. Pitard, eds.
Lollards and
their Influence in Later Medieval England.
Woodbridge: Boydell
Press,
due July 2003.
384pp.
Hardback ISBN
0851159958.
Publisher's
recommended price US$85.00/c.£50.00
Lollard
writings
and ideas exercised a powerful hold on many aspects of English
religious
and cultural life.
Four
fundamental
issues drive these studies: who the Lollards were, with a
reconsideration
of the developing use of the term 'loller' as well as what is known of
individual Lollard careers; what Lollards thought, offering new
perspectives
on key aspects of their beliefs; the spread of Lollard influence
through
their works and their relationship with orthodox productions, examined
through the manuscript context and readership; and how Lollards
differed
from or resembled other reformist or dissident thinkers of the time.
The
book also includes a comprehensive bibliography and an introduction to
previous scholarship. Contributors: David Aers, Margaret Aston, Helen
Barr,
Mishtooni Bose, Lawrence M. Clopper, Andrew Cole, Ralph Hanna III,
Maureen
Jurkowski, Andrew Larsen, Geoffrey H. Martin, Wendy Scase, Fiona
Somerset,
Emily Steiner.
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