John Wyclif has been variously described as “the morning star of the Reformation” and as a preacher of “lying insanities in the ears of many.” His commitment to the reform of the 14th-century church and to the enterprise of vernacular theology inspired nearly a century of religious dissent in late medieval England, as his followers, the Lollards, disseminated versions of his teachings throughout the realm. Their historical significance aside, though, Wyclif’s works represent an important philosophical and theological achievement in their own right. This site intends to make Wyclif’s Latin corpus—now accessible only in the decaying late-19th-century editions of the defunct Wyclif Society—more widely available to a general scholarly audience.

The product of a collaborative effort led by Georgetown University but also involving [INSERT COSPONSORS’ NAMES HERE], the site currently features the text of Wyclif’s treatise De Blasphemia as well as images of the 1893 Wyclif Society edition. As it expands to include the twenty-odd volumes produced by the Wyclif Society between 1883 and 1922, we hope that the site will eventually be able to utilize the XSL and XSLT protocols. We also hope to implement a search engine capable of performing detailed searches both within specific volumes and across the entire corpus.

We plan on having Images available in GIF and PDF formats. The current prototype uses JPEG images optimized for web-viewing rather than printing. Our eventual goal is to produce images and make them available for the purposes of private scholarship and study.