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  • 5 - Wyclif’s Lady, Dymmok’s Queen

  • Lora Walsh, University of Arkansas
  • Book:
    Lady Church in the Christian Imagination
    Published online:
    20 February 2026
    Print publication:
    19 March 2026, pp 142-165

  • Summary

    Chapter 5 identifies how partisan figures in fourteenth-century England, such as John Wyclif and Roger Dymmok, sharpened feminine imagery for the Church, especially in debates over the legitimacy of ecclesiastical wealth. In his Trialogus, Wyclif presents Lady Church as a damsel in distress who was assaulted by the Donation of Constantine, while Dymmok in his anti-Lollard treatise presents Lollards as matricidal vipers and the endowed Church as a mother whose uterus and breasts nurture her educated clergy.