By John Wyclif, Terrence A. McVeigh
The 10th of twelve treatises Wycliff wrote among 1374 and 1382, On Simony types a vital part of his summa.
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In these latter writings his style is one of personal invective, particularly in his treatment of the friars who had attacked his work on the Eucharist published in 1379; in this volume, however, even his harsh accusation that the pope is Antichrist is conditional, that is, if the pope continues to claim unlawful dominion. Shorter than most of the other treatises in the series, this work on simony contains less repetition and fewer digressions. Thus it can serve as a good introduction to the principal ideas of its author because his theories on dominion, the Bible, church, papacy, and kingship are assumed as premises for his analysis of simony.
W. Thomson, p. 79. 75. , p. 63. Page 29 Chapter I 1:1-25 After the general discussion of heresy, the task of treating its parts remains. 1 Three types of heresy are the best known: namely, simony, apostasy, and blasphemy. These are not distinct in opposition to the corresponding virtues, for the species of vices, like the species of virtues, are connected. Their underlying principles, however, are distinct.
Thomson, The Later Lollards: 1414-1520 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965). Hudson's book The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988) documents the endurance of Lollardy into sixteenth-century England. 63. " History, 44 (1964), 152. 64. , Patronage in the Renaissance. 65. M. Aston, "John Wycliffe's Reformation Reputation," Past and Present, 30 (1965), 23-51. 66. , p. 48. 67. Anthony Kenny, "The Accursed Memory: The Counter-Reformation Reputation of John Wyclif," in Wyclif in His Times, ed.