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John Wyclif: On Simony, trans. by Terrence A. McVeigh. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1992). xii + 179 pp. ISBN 0-8232-1344-8. $27.00. Translations of the numerous Latin writings of John Wyclif are few and far between, and, given the frequent obscurity for a modern reader of the ideas involved, are always welcome. The choice of the De Simonia is perhaps less than ideal, since the work does not reveal Wyclif at his most innovatory or least repetitive. But McVeigh's translation is a careful one, and he candidly acknowledges from time to time the obscurity of the writing, ...

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