John Wycliffe: the morning star
(1983)

Fiction

eVideo

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Gateway Films : Made available through hoopla, 1983
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 video file (ca. 75 min.)) : sd., col

ISBN/ISSN
MWT11745902, 11745902
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Directed by Tony Tew

Peter Howell (John Wycliffe), Jeremy Roberts (Throckmorton), Michael Burtenshaw (John Purvey), Barrie Cookson (Nicholas Hereford), Noel Howlet (Archbishop Sudbury), Robert James (Bishop Courtenay)

John Wycliffe is a dramatic biography of the life of the 14th century scholar and cleric who translated the Bible into English for the first time. John Wycliffe found himself in the middle of religious, political and social conflicts. An Oxford scholar, one of Europe's most renowned philosophers, John Wycliffe was a defender of English nationalism against the power of the pope and a champion of the poor against the injustices of the rich

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Mode of access: World Wide Web

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