Download or read book Heresy in England in the Fifteenth Century written by Helen Hague and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That period of English religious history which lies between the death of John Wycliffe at the end of the fourteenth, and the uprising in the early sixteenth century of a body of Protestants influenced by the Continental Reformers, has been variously treated by historians, often in accordance with their religious belief, Catholic, Anglican or Nonconformist,or sometimes showing a reflection of their sympathy with one branch or other of the Anglican Church. So the Roman or the Anglo-Catholic, anxious to prove that the religion of Protestant and Puritanical sixteenth century England had no history - no link with the past - but was merely a foreign weed planted on the land by one or two Englishmen, abetted by Tudor sovereigns and continental Divines, will disavow all connection between the Lollard and the Protestant movement whether doctrinal or anti-papal and clerical. [...]" --