Last of the Schoolmen, first of the English Reformers – John Wyclif

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 Spurgeon’s College library.

Lewis Sergeant [d.1902], John Wyclif. Last of the Schoolmen and First of the English Reformers. New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1893. Hbk. pp.377. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Contents

• Preface

1. The Character of the World
2. The Seething of Europe
3. Monks and Friars
4. Wyclif and the Schoolmen
5. Wyclif’s Early Days
6. Wyclif as Politician
7. The Conference at Bruges
8. Wyclif and the National Church
9. Persecution
10. Pope Gregory’s Bulls
11. Wyclif the Evangelist
12. The Decisive Step
13. Condemned at Oxford
14. Wyclif’s Poor Priests
15. The Headless Rebellion
16. Countenay’s Triumph
17. The Last Stage
18. The Work that Lived

• Chronology of Events Connected with Wyclif
• Index