The Wycliffite Bible

Origin, History and Interpretation
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32565-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 848 g

Reihe: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts

The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation offers new perspectives and research by leading scholars on the first complete translation of the Bible into English produced at the end of the 14th century by the followers of John Wyclif.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Solopova, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgements ix
List of Illustrations x
Abbreviations xii
Bibliographic Abbreviations xiv
Abbreviations for Biblical Books xviii
Notes on Contributors xxi
Introduction: New Directions in Research on the First English Bible 1
Elizabeth Solopova
Part 1
Contexts
1 The Wycliffite Bible: The Historical Context 11
Jeremy Catto
2 The Place of Holy Scripture in John Wyclif’s Theology 27
Ian Christopher Levy
3 The European Background: ‘þe Bible and oþere bookis of deuociun and
of exposicioun’ in French 49
Delbert Russell
4 European Background: Czech Translations 66
Jakub Sichalek
5 The Wycliffites: Hosts or Guests, First Finders or Followers? 85
James H. Morey
Part 2
Text
6 The Latin Text 107
Anne Hudson and Elizabeth Solopova
7 The Origin and Textual Tradition of the Wycliffite Bible 133
Anne Hudson
8 The Prologues 162
Kantik Ghosh
9 The Wycliffite Psalms 183
Annie Sutherland
10 Dialect 202
Elizabeth Solopova
Part 3
Manuscripts
11 The Manuscript Tradition 223
Elizabeth Solopova
12 The Palaeography of the Wycliffite Bibles in Oxford 246
Ralph Hanna
13 The Decoration of Wycliffite Bibles 266
Lynda Dennison and Nigel Morgan
14 Glossing and Glosses 346
Michael P. Kuczynski
Part 4
Reception
15 The Selective Censorship of the Wycliffite Bible 371
Maureen Jurkowski
16 Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ 389
Michael G. Sargent
17 The Use of the Wycliffite Translation in Other Middle English
Texts 406
Stephen Morrison
18 Reading the Wycliffite Bible in Reformation England 426
Mark Rankin
19 Editing the Wycliffite Bible 450
Anne Hudson
Select Bibliography 467
Index of Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible 484
Index of Names, Places, and Texts 493

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Solopova is a Research Fellow at the English Faculty and New College, University of Oxford. She has published widely on Old and Middle English literature, including Manuscripts of the Wycliffite Bible in the Bodleian and Oxford College Libraries (Liverpool, 2016).