John Wycliffe and the Beginning of English Nonconformity

Alleviivauksia.

K.B. McFarlane

197 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1953

”This is a work of superlative scholarship and penmanship. Without doubt, McFarlane's mastery as craftsman of historical writing, perhaps with the sole exception of the Tudor historian S.T. Bindoff's "Tudor England," is a grand historical narrative composed in superb prose and the best precise biography I have ever read. John Wyclif's master biographer has brought down his celebrated and cerebral subject from the high pedestal of a intemperate but vastly erudite intellectual to a level where specialists as well as aficionados are able to get a measure of the achievements of this spirited theologian who flourished in a time of trouble and began a process that culminated in one of Europe's greatest revolutions a century and half after his death. Professor McFarlane's little classic is a joy to read over and over again.”