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Mystics and Reformers
The religious prose of the English fourteenth century — Rolle and Hilton among the mystics, and the Wycliffite protest.
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Select English Works of John Wyclif — Volume IWyclif's Middle English Sunday Gospel sermons, edited from the original manuscripts by Thomas Arnold (Clarendon Press, 1869).Select English Works of John Wyclif — Volume IIWyclif's sermons on the ferial gospels and Sunday epistles, with two polemical treatises, from Arnold's 1871 Oxford edition.Select English Works of John Wyclif — Volume IIIThe thirty-three miscellaneous doctrinal and controversial treatises of Arnold's 1871 Wyclif edition, in the original Middle English, from Of the Church to the tracts on the Eucharist.The Fire of Love and The Mending of LifeRichard Rolle's Fire of Love and Mending of Life, Frances Comper's 1914 modern-English rendering of Richard Misyn's 1435 Middle English translation, with Evelyn Underhill's introduction.The Fire of Love and The Mending of Life — Misyn's Middle EnglishRichard Misyn's 1434-35 Northern Middle English translation of Rolle's Incendium Amoris and De Emendatione Vitae, edited by Ralph Harvey (EETS OS 106, 1896).The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose TreatisesGeraldine E. Hodgson's 1910 modern-English rendering of Richard Rolle of Hampole's Form of Perfect Living and four shorter prose treatises.The Last Age of the ChurchA short Middle English prose treatise on the coming of Antichrist and the corruption of the priesthood, composed in 1356 and long attributed to John Wycliffe, edited from the sole surviving Dublin manuscript by James Henthorn Todd in 1840.The Scale of PerfectionWalter Hilton's two-book guide to the contemplative life, in Evelyn Underhill's 1923 manuscript edition, with her scholarly introduction.