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The Medieval Church · c. 1409–1410
The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ
Nicholas Love · d. c. 1424
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What it is
An English version of the Pseudo-Bonaventure meditations, expanded with passages defending the eucharist and the church against Lollard objections.
Why it lasted
Licensed by the archbishop as approved reading precisely because the English Bible was banned — an official vernacular alternative to Wycliffite scripture.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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