The Lollards

"The Lollards" offers a brief, insightful guide to the history of England's only native medieval heretical movement.

Beginning with its 14th-century origins in the theology of an Oxford professor, John Wyclif, Richard Rex examines the spread of Lollardy across much of England until its eventual dissolution amidst the ecclesiastical and doctrinal upheavals of the 16th century.

Taking account of recent scholarship, this book examines the movement's relationship to Wyclif's teachings, its social and geographical distribution, its political significance and its relationship to the English Reformation.