John Wycliffe
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John Wycliffe was an English scholastic philosopher, Christian reformer, Catholic priest, and a theology professor at the University of Oxford. Wycliffe is traditionally believed to have advocated for
Portrait by Thomas Kirkby, c. 1828
Wyclif Giving 'The Poor Priests' His Translation of the Bible by William Frederick Yeames, published before 1923.
Mural depicting trial of the 19 February 1377. One of The Manchester Murals by Ford Madox Brown. Gaunt is shown confronting William Courtenay while a barefoot Wycliffe looks on. Geoffrey Chaucer is depicted as one of the scribes.
Statue of Wycliffe on Frederick's Church, Copenhagen
Lollardy
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Lollardy was a proto-Protestant Christian religious movement that was active in England from the mid-14th century until the 16th-century English Reformation. It was initially led by John Wycliffe, a C
John Wycliffe
…of scholasticism and as the "morning star" or stella matutina of the English Reformation. Certain of Wycliffe's later followers, derogatorily called Lollards by their orthodox contemporaries in the 15th and 16th centuries, adopted a number of the beliefs attributed to Wycliffe such as theological virtues…
Lollards' prison in Lambeth Palace, overlooking the River Thames in London
A late 14th-century beginning of the Gospel of John, starting with a large letter "I" in blue, from a pocket Wycliffe translation. It may have been used by a roving Lollard preacher
John Oldcastle being burnt for insurrection and Lollard heresy.