John Wycliffe
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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15th‑century English theologian credited with early English Bible translation
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentJeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · What Was Medieval Life Really Like for Every Social Class? 🏰... · 2:34:41 · 8 Sep
…Wycliffe's ideas inspired a movement of followers who came to be known as the Lollards, a somewhat mocking name whose exact origin is murky, but which stuck to these religious dissidents.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · What Was Medieval Life Really Like for Every Social Class? 🏰... · 2:34:11 · 8 Sep
…Wycliffe argued that the Church had strayed disastrously from its proper spiritual mission, that its vast riches and lands were a corruption of everything it was supposed to stand for, and he challenged some of its most fundamental claims to authority.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · What Was Medieval Life Really Like for Every Social Class? 🏰... · 2:34:01 · 8 Sep
…The most significant of these critics in England was a scholar named John Wycliffe, a learned and formidable theologian who launched a stinging attack on the wealth and worldliness of the church.…
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