Lollards of Coventry, 1486-1522

Since 1992, Shannon McSheffrey has taught in the History Department at Concordia University in Montreal. She has written Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), Love and Marriage in Late Medieval London (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Press, 1995).

'… the editors give us a valuable introduction to and a fairly comprehensive view of the nature of later Lollardy in the provinces … a rich collection of materials … The translation [] is unprecedented, I believe, for volumes in the Royal History Society's Camden Series, and it increases the classroom utility of the volume many fold … it is hard to think of another single volume of primary materials that brings home, quite this clearly and concisely, the nature of the prosecution …'. H-Net Book Review

• Acknowledgements; Editorial procedure; Abbreviations; Introduction: The prosecution of heresy in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, 1486–1522; The charges and the defendants' beliefs; The defendants and the practice of Lollardy; The documents; Part I. Chronology of Examinations of Coventry Lollard Suspects, 1486–1522: Part II. Prosecution of The Coventry Lollards in the Ecclesiastical Records, 1486–1522, 1486–1503,1511–1512: Abjurations, 1511–1512, Undated fragments, c. 1511–1512, 1515–1522, Explanatory notes; Part III. Prosecution of the Coventry Lollards in Foxe's Martyrologies and in the Coventry Civic Annals: Explanatory notes; Appendix 1. Suspects named in the Coventry heresy prosecutions, 1486–1522; Appendix 2. Books named in the records of Coventry heresy prosecutions, 1486–1522; Appendix 3. Clerics and others present at Coventry heresy prosecutions, 1486–1522; Index.