Lollardy and the Great Schism: Some Contemporary Perceptions

Abstract

In this paper I wish to draw attention to a small matter of some interest to students of Wycliffism: some English documents of the 1390S where arguments about suitable methods for ending the Great Western Schism briefly combined with lamentations about the spread of heresy, as if schism, heresy and disorder were necessarily interconnected, so that a false move over one problem (schism) would probably worsen the others.