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

• Condemnation of the Errors of Wickliff by the Council of Constance (1415).
• The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, Volume 3 (1837)
• "Wycliffe, John," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Wycliffe, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (24) (1888)
• "Wiclif, or Wyclif, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Wycliffe, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "John Wyclif," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)