Not a Lollard Mass After All?
One William Ramsbury was prosecuted before Bishop John Waltham of Salisbury in 1389 for having undergone an invalid form of ordination and for having thereafter illegally celebrated a form of the mass in many churches of the diocese. Until now, his case has been taken as that of a Lollard priest, or...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 207-217 |
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| Summary: | One William Ramsbury was prosecuted before Bishop John Waltham of Salisbury in 1389 for having undergone an invalid form of ordination and for having thereafter illegally celebrated a form of the mass in many churches of the diocese. Until now, his case has been taken as that of a Lollard priest, ordained according to a Lollard ritual and celebrating a eucharistic liturgy edited to reflect Wycliffite theology. This article re-examines the record and argues that it has been misread. Far from being a Lollard minister, it suggests, Ramsbury was nothing but a confidence trickster. The form of liturgy he admitted to celebrating was not a product of theological editing but the performance of the visible and audible parts of the mass, with those parts customarily unseen and unheard simply omitted for economy of effort. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq175 |