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Feeling Like Saints
Fiona Somerset
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Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 616.
"Lollard" is the name given to followers of John Wyclif, the English dissident theologian who was dismissed from Oxford University in 1381 for his arguments regarding the eucharist. A forceful and influential critic of the ecclesiastical status quo in the late fourteenth century, Wyclif's thought was condemned at the Council of Constance in 1415. While lollardy has attracted much attention in recent years, much of what we think we know about this English religious movement is based on records of heresy trials and anti-lollard chroniclers. In Feeling Like Saints, Fiona Somerset demonstrates that this approach has limitations. A better basis ... Read more
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Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452819
SKU
V9780801452819
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99-1
About Fiona Somerset
Fiona Somerset is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England and the coeditor of Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England and The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity.
Reviews for Feeling Like Saints
Feeling Like Saints, [Fiona] Somerset's magnum opus on Lollard literature, displays her extensive knowledge of the subject and models a new approach to the literature that will be influential for a long time to come.... Feeling Like Saints is a pioneering book in Lollard studies and in the larger field of vernacular English literature. The vitality of any scholarly field ... Read more