After the Wycliffite Controversies: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Thomas Gascoigne's Liber Veritatum

Author: Bose, Mishtooni1

Source: Cultural and Social History, Volume 6, Number 2, June 2009 , pp. 171-186(16)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

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Abstract:

The Liber Veritatum, compiled 1434-57 by the Oxford theologian Thomas Gascoigne, shows how the political and religious tensions that had built up during the years of Lancastrian rule could be introjected and reformulated with a distinctive clerical subjectivity. It shows that English religious orthodoxy remained thematically, tonally and discursively polychromatic long after intellectual Wycliffism had declined. Gascoigne's generation was continuing on its own terms a polemical agenda that had been anticipated, at least in outline, by controversial English thinkers of an earlier generation, including Thomas Brinton, Wyclif and the author of Piers Plowman.

Keywords: REFORM; DISSENT; HERESY; ORTHODOXY; WYCLIF

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.2752/147800409X411038

Affiliations: 1: Christ Church, Oxford

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