...This chapter analyzes manuscript records which show how the bible was used and what the General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible itself explains and demonstrates about its purposes. Conventional wisdom dictates that lollards translated the entire text of the bible into English...

... the model of the parts of speech. More specifically, it examines the work of Sacerdos, Diomedes, and Priscian. It also discusses the Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible, which tackles the practical problems of translation posed by the ablative absolute and proposes a recipe for its resolution into English...

... Catholic Church, in other words, never banned vernacular Bibles in a comprehensive nor consistent manner—as evidenced by the extraordinary popularity of the so-called Wycliffite Bible. Thus, contrary to modern stereotypes, medieval vernacular translations of the Bible were accepted by ecclesiastical...

...This chapter discusses the General Prologue of the Wycliffite Bible, written around 1395–1399. The prologue represents a central theoretical statement about the most important vernacularising project of the Lollard movement. It consists of eleven chapters that introduce the books of the Old...