Wickliffe's New Testament

John Wickliffe (c.1330-1384), often called 'the morning star of the Reformation' arranged for and assisted in the translation of the Bible from Latin into the current late Medieval 'Middle English' in about 1380 A.D. This version was revised and improved by John Purvey and others between 1390 and 1398. Circulated by Wickliffe's 'Lollard' preachers at great personal risk, this version laid the groundwork for the later Reformation in the British Isles. This common ancestor of all English lang...