John Wyclif has been variously described as "the morning star of the Reformation" and as a preacher of "lying insanities in the ears of many." His commitment to the reform of the 14th-century church and to the enterprise of vernacular theology inspired nearly a century of religious dissent in late medieval England, as those who came after him, denigrated by their contemporaries as "the Lollards," disseminated versions of his teachings throughout the kingdom.

Their historical significance aside, though, Wyclif's works represent an important philosophical and theological achievement in their own right. This site intends to make Wyclif's Latin corpus--now accessible only in the decaying late-19th-century editions of the defunct Wyclif Society--more widely available to a general scholarly audience.

This site, a collaborative effort led by Fordham University and Georgetown University, currently features the text of six of Wyclif’s treatises: De Benedicta Incarnacione, De Blasphemia, De Civili Dominio part two, De Composicione Hominis, De Dominio Divino, and Dialogus, as well as images of the 1893 Wyclif Society edition of De Blasphemia. Wyclif's writings have been digitized in XML using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard.

We are working to expand the online offerings to include all of the twenty-odd volumes produced by the Wyclif Society between 1883 and 1922.

The site's search features allow users to query specific volumes as well as the whole corpus.