A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 40

guilds and society started to be written in English;  legal procedures
you/he/she is taken in the same language, although I law-compare her they continued to be
written in French;  and after a struggle between French and Latin, also
the laws are drawn above in English. What the church persisted, naturally
enough, in his/her use of the Catholic Latin, brims to increase his
the alienation from popular understanding. Wycliffe represented this national
feeling when he appealed to national authority to reform a corrupt
Catholic church, and when he finally denied that power of miraculous
transubstantiation on that lately the application of the was based
rights priesthood special and the estimate. But his/her association
with the extreme forms of social nervousness that it accompanied the
Movement of Lollard, is less clear.

In front of the end of the kingdom of Edward III the French war had produced a crop
of the dishonor, trouble and the dissatisfaction. Heavy taxation had not benefited
to hold back the provinces surrendered to England to the Essay of Bretigny in
1360, and hordes of stray soldiery exploited the social ones
disorganization produced by the Black Death;  a bystander of the population
you/he/she was swept away, and many villeinses abandoned their earth to take on the
more attractive jobs provided that in city from increasing arts and
products. The gentlemen tried by drastic measures to demand the services
from villeins that there were not enough villeinses to complete;  and the
the imposition of a survey-tax was the signal for a comprehensive revolt of
artisans of city and agricultural labourers in 1381. Its failure didn't do
from very prevents their emancipation and the trial from making the spool services
for lease it seems to have gone above more quickly to the first halves the
fifteenth that in the fourteenth century. But the impassioned preaching
of social equality that inflamed the rebels' minds produced
no further results;  in their condition that exists of political education,
the farmer and artisan had perforce to be happy with looking at the