Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages : Lollardy and Ideas of Learning

Copeland's detailed examination of the relationship between heretical and conventional attitudes to learning focuses on the role of intellectual individuals in the medieval heresy of Lollardy. The first part of the study includes a discussion of the theological and intellectual debate surrounding the literal reading of texts and traces the origins of the debate back to antiquity. The second part discusses prison writing, particularly by Richard Wyche and William Thorpe, and includes extensive extracts. Latin texts are accompanied by English translation.