ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -John Wycliffe is widely considered one of the medieval forerunners of the Protestant Reformation. His criticism of the practices and beliefs of the church foreshadowed those of later reformers. Wycliffe also directed a translation of the Bible into English.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Wycliffe was an Oxford professor who believed that the teachings of the Bible were more important than the earthly clergy and the Pope. Wycliffe translated the Bible into English, as he believed that everyone should be able to understand it directly.

Detailed explanation-3: -John Wycliffe is famed as the man who first translated the whole Bible into English. He was born in the 1320s and died in 1384 and, for much of his life, he was a theologian, lecturer and academic at Oxford University. It was only at the very end of his life that he turned to Bible translation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wycliffe was born at some point in the mid-1320s, probably in the village of Wycliffe in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He went to Oxford in around 1350 and was ordained a priest in 1351. He seems to have spent most of the 1360s in Oxford because in 1361 he was elected the head of Balliol College.