The first day of the New Year seems an appropriate moment to post a book about a man who marked another kind of transition: from the age of the Schoolmen to the age of the reformers of the Church. This public domain book by Lewis Sergeant was digitised from a copy a copy held in…
A short study of the Morning Star of the Reformation, John Wycliffe, and the Lollards. My thanks to Book Aid for providing a copy of this public domain title for digitisation. William Marshall [1807-1880], Wycliffe and the Lollards. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1884. Hbk. pp.127. [Click to visit the download page] Contents Wycliffe The…
That the so-called “Dark Ages” contained a surprising amount of light soon becomes clear from the pages of this second volume in the Paternoster Church History. Even the Medieval Papacy, whose rise and fall is, broadley speaking, covered by the period of this book, and which became a laughing-stock and was treated as a scandal,…
Caterina Bruschi, The Wandering Heretics of Languedoc. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Hbk. ISBN-13: 9780521182270. pp.232. The publishers blurb reads: How should historians read sources which record inquisitorial trials in the Middle Ages? How can we understand the fears felt by those on trial? By analysing six volumes of depositions in the trial of Cathar…
