LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS
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a hero in a courtly romance
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a member of a sect that was considered heretical
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a female mystic
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an illiterate anchoress
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Lollards stated that the Catholic Church had been corrupted by temporal matters and that its claim to be the true Church was not justified by its heredity. Part of this corruption involved prayers for the dead and chantries.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Lollards were responsible for a translation of the Bible into English, by Nicholas of Hereford, and later revised by Wycliffe’s secretary, John Purvey.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Lollards were a group of anti-clerical English Christians who lived between the late 1300s and the early 1500s. The Lollards were followers of John Wycliffe, the Oxford University theologian and Christian Reformer who translated the Bible into vernacular English.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Lollards who followed Wyclif derived their name from the medieval Dutch words meaning ‘to mutter’ (probably reflecting their style of worship, which was based on reading the scriptures). They represented a general but very limited, minority reform movement.