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John Wycliffe
Also called: John Wyclif
Oxford theologian who attacked the wealth of the Church and papal authority and had the Bible translated into English — a forerunner of the Reformation
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From 1378 to 1417 rival popes sat in Rome and Avignon, splitting the Western Church in two (for a time in three). The Council of Constance ended it by electing a new pope.
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On 6 July 1415 the Bohemian theologian Jan Hus, a critic of the Church, was condemned as a heretic by the Council of Constance and burned, leading to the Hussite Wars.
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- Jan Hus1415
Theologian of the University of Prague in Bohemia who, influenced by Wycliffe, criticised the Church and was burned as a heretic at the Council of Constance
Themes this person appears in
- Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing