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1882
Volume 63, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0078-2122
  • E-ISSN: 2507-0444

Abstract

Abstract

This article considers how writings that address the pursuit of heresy in England might have prepared their readers for heretical self-defense, and it surveys the emotional scripts of the , ,, and , suggesting many lollard writings offer training in feeling as much as argument. This essay closely examines the advice on self-defense in the , proposing that it aims to teach readers the simple strategy of denying anything they do not know to be true. However, teaching readers to doubt, as in the , is as important as teaching them to deny. The article finishes with the longest lollard defensive text, the , showing how it uses doubt to construct its arguments, and even defend Wyclif himself.

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