This two-volume work, published in the Rolls Series in 1860, is
valuable for both religious and linguistic history. A vernacular
text written in a period of division within the Church and
widespread popular religious discontent, it provides a record of
the arguments that fuelled this division. Reginald Pecock (c.1392
c.1459) recounts the attacks made by Lollard reformers and provides
well-composed answers to them. A firm believer in papal supremacy,
Pecock insisted on proving doctrine by reason, a position which
laid him open to the charges of heresy that dogged his career and
eventually led to his disgrace. Volume 2 deals with ranks and
degrees of clergy, papal statutes and authority, and religious
orders. It also contains related contemporary texts in Latin both
attacking and vindicating Pecock and his position. These include
John Bury's answer to The Repressor, Gladius Salomonis, and a
report of Pecock's eventual downfall and abjuration.
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