Coventry, one of late medieval England's major cities, harbored an important community of heretics, known as Lollards, in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. This volume presents all the known records concerning these heretics, in the original languages of Latin and medieval English as well as in a modern English translation. The documents offer new insights into the nature of religious dissent in England prior to the first stirrings of the English Reformation.

Shannon McSheffrey studies the communities of the late medieval English heretics, the Lollards, and presents unexpected conclusions about the precise ways in which gender shaped participation and interaction within the movement.

Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London Shannon McSheffrey "A superb book, not only in terms of its sympathy with the evidence and concern for context but in showing us that our knowledge of how the church courts interacted with society must be based on more local case-studies of this kind."--EHR Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association How were marital and sexual relationships woven into the fabric of late medieval society, and what form did these relationships take? Using extensive documentary...

In premodern English law, felons had the right to seek sanctuary in a church or ecclesiastical precinct. It is commonly held that this practice virtually died out after the medieval period, but Shannon McSheffrey highlights its resurgence under the Tudor regime and shows how the issue lay at the intersection between law, religion, and culture.