EN 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Margery Kempe, John Wycliffe, Lollardy
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The stained glass windows, which you would look up to, would tell the fundamental stories. The cross points up, but it probably did not in those times. If you died without having confessed, you would go to hell; to be avoided at all costs. A lot of prayers were in latin; not the language of the townspeople. The prayers the christians were able to recite gave the idea of the life of the laity (the laypeople) - layman: someone who is not an expert. Monks who take money; some reformers decide that we need to begin regularizing the church to make it no longer corrupt. Make the word of god available for people in their own language. Threatening to the corrupt church: you need to come to us to seek the translation. Wycliffe interested in people teaching themselves the word.
