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The Lollards in Pre-Reformation Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

W. Stanford Reid
W. Stanford Reid
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McGill University, Montreal, P. Q.Canada
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The influence of the Lollard movement on the Scottish Reformation was pointed out by John Knox in the sixteenth century; and in the latter part of the nineteenth century the same point was stressed by the Historiographer Royal for Scotland, P. Hume Brown. Yet in spite of such illustrious advocacy, with one or two minor exceptions, little attention has been paid to the Wycliffite tradition in fifteenth century Scotland. It has generally been taken for granted that the Lollards were unimportant and possessed little or no influence. When all the information on the movement which we possess, however, is brought together, one cannot but feel that they had a greater influence on their own time than has heretofore been allowed: Not only did the early reformers consider them very important, but today also, in spite of predilections for economic interpretations of history, they must be regarded as one of the important sources of the Scottish Reformation.

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Church History , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1942 , pp. 269 - 283
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1942

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