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... Oxford , leaving the university when he was nineteen and before his studies were completed . Though his writings show that he was not deficient in formal academic learning , he evidently experienced at Oxford a spiritual crisis , for on ...
... Oxford , leaving the university when he was nineteen and before his studies were completed . Though his writings show that he was not deficient in formal academic learning , he evidently experienced at Oxford a spiritual crisis , for on ...
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... Oxford at first acquitted Wiclif of charges made against him at the instigation of the hierarchy , his public denial in 1380 of the doctrine of transubstantiation was open heresy and two years later the university could no longer ...
... Oxford at first acquitted Wiclif of charges made against him at the instigation of the hierarchy , his public denial in 1380 of the doctrine of transubstantiation was open heresy and two years later the university could no longer ...
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... Oxford , was first caught up in the cross - currents of dogma in the reign of Henry VIII , but he submitted to the official articles of faith and was made Bishop of Worcester in 1535. He was in trouble again before the end of that ...
... Oxford , was first caught up in the cross - currents of dogma in the reign of Henry VIII , but he submitted to the official articles of faith and was made Bishop of Worcester in 1535. He was in trouble again before the end of that ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER I | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE | 43 |
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