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This article explores the importance of the social relationships of a group of suspected lollards in Bristol in 1414. Building on the work of Hudson and Kelly, who both suggest that this group managed to purge themselves despite being lollards, the article reconstructs social connections and considers how these may have aided the group’s purgation. It considers the evidence of heresy trials found in Bishop Bubwith’s register and the social relationships present in last wills and testaments. The use of Social Network Analysis to evaluate these social networks allows wider conclusions to be drawn about the effectiveness of purgation and lollards’ self-defence through their social connections in the early fifteenth century.
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