A specimen page from Wycliffe's Bible, the name given to a group of Bible translations into Middle English that were made under the direction of John Wycliffe, canon and rector of St Mary’s Church is in Lutterworth, a market town in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. They appeared over a period from approximately 1382 to 1395. In the early Middle Ages, relatively few people could read at this time, and Wycliffe’s idea was to translate the Bible into the vernacula.
A specimen page from Wycliffe's Bible, the name given to a group of Bible translations into Middle English that were made under the direction of John Wycliffe, canon and rector of St Mary’s Church is in Lutterworth, a market town in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. They appeared over a period from approximately 1382 to 1395. In the early Middle Ages, most Western Christian people encountered the Bible only in the form of oral versions of scriptures, verses and homilies in Latin. Relatively few people could read at this time, and Wycliffe’s idea was to translate the Bible into the vernacular, saying "it helpeth Christian men to study the Gospel in that tongue in which they know best Christ's sentence".
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Location: England, UK
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