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Article: Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer.(Book review)
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Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer. By Andrew Cole. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xx + 308 pp. $99.00 cloth.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet? Not so, argues Andrew Cole, if the rose in question is the Wycliffite heresy, and the "other name" is "lollardy," that near-ubiquitous epithet employed by ecclesiastical officials, poets, and others in late medieval England to deride John Wyclif's followers. Cole's study presents a series of refreshing and compelling readings of the works of such canonical authors as William Langland and Margery Kempe, situating them in relation to the ...