The Lollard Bible : And Other Medieval Biblical Versions (Paperback)

1. The problem of the Middle-English Bible and the aim of this study; 2. The prohibitions of vernacular Bible reading in France, Italy and Spain; 3. The prohibitions of vernacular Bible reading in the Holy Roman Empire and the Netherlands, before 1400; 4. Bible reading in the Empire and the Netherlands c. 1400?1521; 5. Translations of parts of the Vulgate in England before Wycliffe; 6. Pre-Wycliffite biblical study by clerks: (a) the higher clergy, friars, monks; 7. Pre-Wycliffite biblical study by clerks: (b) parish priests; 8. Pre-Wycliffite biblical reading by lay people; 9. Wycliffe as the instigator of a vernacular Bible; 10. The two versions of the Wycliffite Bible, and the evidence of the General Prologue as to the authorship of the second version; 11. The controversy about the English Bible 1384?1408 and the constitutions of 1408; 12. Biblical translations contemporary with the Lollard versions; 13. Bible reading by the orthodox, 1408?1526; 14. The Lollards and English Bible reading.