BIBLIOGRAPHY.—The documentary materials for Wycliffe's biography are to be found in John Lewis's Life and Sufferings of J. Wiclif (new ed., Oxford, 1820) , which contains a valuable appendix ; Foxe's Acts and Monuments, vol. iii., ed. 1855, with app.; Forshall and Madden's preface to the Wycliffe Bible, p. vii. note, Oxford, 1851; W. W. Shirley's edition of the Fasciculi Zizaniorum, a collection of contempo rary documents (18r8) ; and H. T. Riley's notices in the appendices to the Second and Fourth Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. The narrative of a monk of St. Albans published under the title of Chronicon Angliae, by Sir E. Maunde Thompson (1874), and in a modified version in Walsingham's Historia Anglican (ed.
H. T. Riley, 2863, 2864). Knyghton's chronology in De eventibus Angliae is faulty (ed. J. R. Lumby, 2889-95). There are valuable notices in the Eulogium historiarum (vol. iii., ed. F. S. Haydon, 1863), in the Chronicle of Adam of Usk (ed. E. M. Thompson, 1876) , and in the continuations of Higden. The controversial works of Wodeford and Walden are important, but must be used with caution.
Of modern biographies that by G. V. Lechler (Johann von Wiclif und die Vorgeschichte der Reformation, 2 vols., Leipzig, 1873 ; partial Eng. trans., by P. Lorimer, 1878, 1881 and 1884) is by far the most comprehensive. Shirley's introduction to the Fasciculi Zizaniorum, and F. D. Matthew's to his edition of English Works of Wydif hitherto unprinted (188o), as well as Creighton's History of the Papacy, vol. i., 1882, and Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte's account in his History of the University of Oxford (1886), contain valuable criticism. See also Mr. R. L. Poole, (Illustrations of the History of Mediaeval Thought, 5884) ; J. Loserth (Hus und Wiclif, Prague, 2884 ; also Eng. trans.). G. M. Trevelyan, England in the Age of Wycliffe (London, 1899) ; Oman, History of England 1377-1485 (London, 1905) ; W. W. Capes,
"History of the English Church in the 14th and 15th Centuries," in Hist. of the Eng. Church, ed. Stephen and Hunt (London, 190o) ; J. Loserth's article "Wiclif," in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopiidie (3rd ed., 1908), xxi., pp. 225-227; H. B. Workman, John Wyclif (1926).
Wycliffe's works are enumerated in a Catalogue by Shirley (Oxford, 1865). Of his Latin works only two had been published previous to 1880, the De officio pastorali, ed. G. V. Lechler (Leipzig, 1863) and the Trialogus, ed. Lechler (Oxford, 1869). Under the auspices of the Wyclif Society the following have been published.—Polemical Tracts, ed. R. Buddensieg (2 vols., 1883) ; De civili dominio, vol. i. ed. R. L.
Poole, vols. ii.–iv., ed. J. Loserth (1885-1905) ; De composicione hominis, ed. R. Beer (1884) ; De Ecclesia, ed. Loserth (1886) ; Dialogus sive speculum ecclesiae militantis, ed. A. W. Pollard (1886) ; Sermones, ed. Loserth, vols. i.–iv. (1887-9o) ; De officio regis, ed. A. W. Pollard and C. Sayle (1887) ; De apostasia, ed. M. Dziewicki (1889) ; De dominio divino, ed R. L. Poole (1890) ; Quaestiones. De ente praedi camentali, ed. R. Beer (1891) ; De eucharistic tractatus major, ed. Loserth (1893) ; De blasphemia, ed. Dziewicki (1894) ; Logica (3 vols., ed. Dziewicki, 1895-99) ; Opus evangelicum, ed. Loserth (4 vols., 1898), parts iii. and iv. also bear the title De Antichrist° ; De Simonia, ed. Herzberg-Frankel and Dziewicki (1898) ; De veritatae sacrae scripturae, ed. R. Buddensieg (3 vols., 1905) ; Miscellanea philosophica, ed. Dziewicki (2 vols., 1905) (vol. i. has an introduction on Wycliffe's philosophy) ; De potestate papae, ed. Loserth (1907).
For his works in English see Select English Works, ed. T. Arnold (3 vols., 1869-71), and English Works hitherto unprinted, ed. F. D. Matthew (188o). The Wicket (Nuremberg, 1546; reprinted at Oxford, 1828) is not included in either of these collections. (R. L. P.; X.)