The Lollards

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The Lollards. By Richard Rex. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xv + 188 pp. £45.00/$65.00 (cloth); £14.99/$21.95 (paper).

The publication of yet another study of the late medieval English heretics known as Lollards may give some scholars pause. After all, the Lollards are probably the most extensively studied of all late medieval dissenters, and attempts to link their religious teachings and confessional practices to the Reformation of the sixteenth century are hardly the stuff of cutting edge historical writing. Yet Richard Rex offers here a brief and highly readable account of Lollardy one that students and scholars alike will find simultaneously challenging and …