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Lollards first faced serious persecution after the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. While Wycliffe and other Lollards opposed the revolt, one of the peasants' leaders, John Ball, preached Lollardy. Prior to 1382, Wycliffite beliefs were tolerated in government as they endorsed in royal superiority to bishops.
John Wycliffe (/ ˈ w ɪ k l ɪ f /; also spelled Wyclif, Wickliffe, and other variants; [a] c. 1328 – 31 December 1384) [2] was an English scholastic philosopher, Christian reformer, Catholic priest, and a theology professor at the University of Oxford.
The eleventh conclusion asserts that women in the Church who have made vows of celibacy, being fickle and unperfect, become pregnant and then seek abortions ("the most horrible synne possible to man kynde") to conceal the fact that they had broken their vows, a practice which the text strongly condemns. They should be married.
John Wycliffe and Lollardy; Jan Hus and Hussites; Girolamo Savonarola and Piagnoni; ... It was written that these targets of persecution, including old men, women ...
John Wycliffe and Lollardy; ... but they outwardly conformed to Catholicism to evade persecution. ... She was a woman of "charm, style and wit, with will and savagery ...
all Catholics who subscribe to this article of John Wycliffe: 42. It is ridiculous to believe in the indulgences of popes and bishops. all Catholics who subscribe to this article of John Wycliffe: 43. Oaths taken to confirm civil commerce and contracts between people are unlawful. all Catholics who subscribe to this article of John Wycliffe: 44.
Starting around 1402, priest and scholar Jan Hus denounced what he judged as the corruption of the church and the papacy, and he promoted some of the reformist ideas of English theologian John Wycliffe. His preaching was widely heeded in Bohemia, and provoked suppression by the church, which had declared many of Wycliffe's ideas heretical.
One of the early Reformers was John Wycliffe, an English theologian and early proponent of reform in the 14th century. His followers, known as Lollards, spread throughout England but soon were persecuted by both leaders in the Roman Catholic Church and government officials. Wycliffe influenced Jan Hus, a Czech priest from Prague.