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: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Wycliffe’s Bible (WYC) is the name now given to a group of Bible translations into Middle English that were made under the direction of English theologian John Wycliffe. They appeared over a period from approximately 1382 to 1395.