‘And so it is licly to men’: Probabilism and Hermeneutics in Wycliffite Discourse

Abstract

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The Invisibility of the Soul and the Rhetoric of Dissent: Conscience and the Wycliffite Heresy

“…Indeed, when he falls silent, one of the archbishop's clerks demands to know, "What þing musist þou?" (l. 432; for "muse"/"musare", see Ghosh, 2019). There is an obvious anxiety here about the selective legibility of the heretic's inner life: it manifests itself only on its own terms, and those terms can be highly stylised, distortive-if not simply deceptive, contrived in bad faith.…”