"lollardy" - 1 õppematerjal

The Middle Ages

Another was that Ed III's wars had made the English conscious of their ,,Englishness". Pope was a foreigner, and what was worse, he had been driven out of Rome & was living in France. The taxes they paid to the Church seemed to be help to France. In this the king & people agreed. The bishops & clergy did not oppose the king either. The peasants stormed London in 1381 & executed the Archbishop of Canterbury. Another threat was the private prayer books. At the end of the 14th cent. ,,Lollardy". These ideas were condemned as heresy. The leader was John Wycliffe, an Oxford professor. In 1396 he translated the Bible into English. Henry IV, Richard's successor was deeply loyal to the Church. In 1401 burnt men & women for heresy & orthodoxy. The condition of women was no doubt hard. The Church taught that women should obey their husbands. The ideas spread about women were: they should be pure & holy like the Virgin Mary; like Eve they could not be trusted & were moral danger to men