Beyond the Book of Kells: A Wycliffite Psalter

Recorded February 6, 2018. This lecture is part of a series
entitled "Beyond the Book of Kells: The stories of eight other
medieval manuscripts from the library of Trinity College Dublin."
Register here for this event - http://bit.ly/2DBD6uP In this talk
Dr Niamh Patwell from UCD will discuss TCD MS 70: A Wycliffite
Psalter. The rejection of Latin as the language of religion in
favour of vernaculars in the 1960s is well known; attempts to
convey the word of God in English in the fourteenth century will be
less familiar. TCD 70, with its basic instructional works
introducing the fundamental tenets of the Christian faith and text
of the Psalms in English, represents just such an early attempt to
democratise access to scripture, at a time when there was the
danger such activity would be condemned as heretical. Learn more
at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/