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Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England.

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Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. 2006. Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. $50.00 he. lii + 562 pp.

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton's latest book will rapidly become essential reading for scholars of medieval literature. In her study of the reception history of various prophetic and visionary writings, she has provided a thoroughly revisionist account of theological politics in England in the late medieval period. The generation of scholars since Anne Hudson's The Premature Reformation (1988) have largely come to imagine an insular English church, largely untroubled by continental heresies, but which faced a solitary challenge to orthodoxy in the last decades of the fourteenth century with the rise to prominence of the Oxford theologian John Wyclif and his followers, the Lollards. With their calls for disendowment and for lay access to a translated Bible, and their questioning of fundamental theologies such as transub-stantiation, the Wycliffites, in Hudson's parlance, represented "the English heresy" In Books Under Suspicion, the...

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