Assessing Thomas Becket

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  • RicardusRicardus Shipmate
    IME you have to be a certain kind of churchgoer, and/or have an interest in church or Medieval history, to be aware of the Lollards. (It may be different in parts of the country were Lollardy was strong.)

    Conversely, Jan Hus is a Czech national hero, and therefore any site that has some connection either to Hus or the Hussite Wars (which is lots of places) is likely to have an information board for the benefit of tourists asking Who Was Jan Hus?, and there is a decent chance that the answer will at least name-drop John Wycliffe (or 'Mistr Jan Viklef').
  • Ricardus wrote: »
    IME you have to be a certain kind of churchgoer, and/or have an interest in church or Medieval history, to be aware of the Lollards. (It may be different in parts of the country were Lollardy was strong.)

    As I remember, the Lollards got a page in my school mediaeval history text. I can recall little beyond the name.
  • Same here, I'm afraid.

    Even Wikipedia isn't much help:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollardy
  • Yeah, my knowledge of Lollardy is pretty much:
    Late mediaeval
    deemed heretics
    Kinda-sorta proto-protestant
    Persecuted
    ...
    That's it. And I'm a church history nerd by the standards of most congregations.
  • Thou hast committed...
    ...Heresy. But that was in another country...
  • Thou hast committed...
    ...Heresy. But that was in another country...

    ... and besides the wench is dead.
  • Quite, or, in this case, perhaps it's the Heretic's accusers who are now dead?

    Full marks to Master Feet, however, for spotting today's literary allusion.
    :grin:
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