Презентация по англ. литературе на тему " John Wycliffe "

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  John Wycliffe (1320-1384)
  

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  Biography
  John was a poor English priest and started to write much later than William Langland. He was a student of Oxford, later he was employed as counsel for the Crown in a debate about papal claims.
  
  

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  Conflict with the Church
  He challenged everything that set the Pope of Rome above the English bishops. He denied the Church’s right to be rich, declared the Catholic Church to be corrupt and appealed to the authorities to reform it.
  
  

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  Wycliffe denied the miraculous change of things from one substance into another – as the conversion of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ together with his soul, - which brought him into conflict with one of the English bishops.
  

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  Why is he remembered?
  John met the demand of the people by translating the Bible into English. Also, he’s remembered because he discussed political questions with the common people in the common tongue and helped the peasants to prepare for the uprising of 1381.
  
  

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  The last years of his life he lived in retirement occupied with his literary work and organizing his ‘poor priests’.
  After his death the Pope ordered his writings to be destroyed and his body to be dug up and burnt.
  John Wycliffe died in 1384 in Lutterworht.