Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. The Invention of Heresy: 1. The Blackfriars Council, London, 1382; Part II. The Late Fourteenth Century: Canonizing Wycliffism: 2. The invention of 'Lollardy': William Langland; 3. The reinvention of 'Lollardy': William Langland and his contemporaries; 4. Geoffrey Chaucer's Wycliffite text; Part III. The Early Fifteenth Century: Heretics and Eucharists: 5. Thomas Hoccleve's heretics; 6. John Lydgate's Eucharists; Part IV. Feeling Wycliffite: 7. Margery Kempe's 'Lollard' affects; Part V. Epilogue: 8. Heresy, Wycliffism and English literary history; Bibliography; Index.