Author:John Wycliffe

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John Wycliffe (1320s–1384)

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English Scholastic philosopher, theologian, lay preacher, translator, reformer and university teacher who was known as an early dissident in the Roman Catholic Church. Wycliffe was also an early advocate for translation of the Bible into the common language. He completed his translation directly from the Vulgate into vernacular English in the year 1382, now known as Wycliffe's Bible.

John Wycliffe

Works

• Select English Works
• Unprinted English Works
• Three Treatises on the Church

Translations

• Wycliffe Bible (ca. 1384)

Works about Wycliffe

• The Public Testimony given by the University of Oxford, touching the great Learning and good Life of John Wickliff (1406)
• The Testimony and Judgment of Master John Huss, touching Master John Wickliff by Jan Hus
• The Public Defence of Certain Articles of John Wickliff, in the first Act before the whole University of Prague, in Charles's College by Jan Hus
• The Sentence given by the Council of Constance, in condemnation of the Doctrine, and Five and Forty Articles of John Wickliff (1415)
• Certain other Articles gathered out of Wickliff's Books by his Adversaries, to the Number of Forty-five, exhibited to the Council of Constance after his Death, and in the same Council condemned
• Articles against Wickliff collected by William Woodford
• Condemnation of the Errors of Wickliff by the Council of Constance (1415).
• Substance of the Decree of the Synod of Constance, touching the taking up of the Body and Bones of John Wickliff, to be burned fourty-one Years after he was buried in his own Parish at Lutterworth
• "Wiclif, or Wyclif, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "John Wyclif," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Wycliffe, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.