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The copied words that cost Jerome his life
A scholar returns to Constance knowing the council will burn him for copying Wycliffe’s texts - would you keep the belief that will end your life?
The copied words that cost Jerome his life
In this episode we follow Jerome of Prague from university classrooms to the stake in Constance, tracing the choices that led him to stand by writings he had copied by hand. What did copying John Wycliffe’s Dialogus and Trialogus mean for a man who knew exactly what the Church would do?
Person: Jerome of Prague
Date: May 30, 1416
Location: Constance
Topic: Copying of John Wycliffe’s Dialogus and Trialogus…
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