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Auto/Biography
ISSN
0967-5507
Volume
14
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1

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Title
John Wyclif: The Biography of a Legend
DOI
10.1191/0967550706ab020oa
Author
G.R. Evans (University of Cambridge, UK, gre1001 at cam.ac.uk)
Pages
1-20

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John Wyclif: The Biography of a Legend

G.R. Evans (University of Cambridge, UK, gre1001 at cam.ac.uk)

DOI: 10.1191/0967550706ab020oa

Abstract

The writings of the controversial John Wyclif (d. 1384) were largely lost to view until the end of the nineteenth century, but meanwhile a considerable biographical tradition had been created and sustained. He became hero of the Reformation on the basis of rumour and some centuries of polemic. This paper will consider some of the methodological problems and problems of revision that faced his biographers at the time when his works became available for them to read at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, and which continue now that it is also apparent that the writings in English with which he was long credited are unlikely to be his work at all.

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