Table of Contents:
  • The invention of heresy. The Blackfriars Council, London, 1382
  • The late fourteenth century: canonizing Wycliffism. The invention of "lollardy": William Langland ; The reinvention of "lollardy": William Langland and his contemporaries ; Intermezzo: Wycliffism is not "lollardy" ; Geoffrey Chaucer's Wycliffite text
  • The early fifteenth century: heretics and eucharists. Thomas Hoccleve's heretics ; John Lydgate's eucharists
  • Feeling Wycliffite. Margery Kempe's "lollard" shame
  • Epilogue. Heresy, Wycliffism, and English literary history.