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For the literature of Waldensian texts see A. deStefano, Civilta
Medioevale (1944); and Riformatori ed eretici nel medioeve (Palermo,
1938); J. D. Bounous, The Waldensian Patois of Pramol (Nashville,
1936); and A. Dondaine, Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum (1946).
For the history of the Waldenses some of the more recent, reliable
works are: E. Comba, History of the Waldenses in Italy (see later
Italian edition published in Torre Pellice, 1934); E. Gebhart, Mystics
and Heretics (Boston, 1927); G. Gonnet, Il Valdismo Medioevale,
Prolegomeni (Torre Pellice, 1935); and Jalla, Histoire des Vaudois et
leurs colonies (Torre Pellice, 1935).
Page 77. Edict Against the Waldenses.—A considerable portion
of the text of the papal bull issued by Innocent VIII in 1487 against
the Waldenses (the original of which is in the library of the University
of Cambridge) is given, in an English translation, in John Dowling’s
History of Romanism (1871 ed.), B. 6, ch. 5, sec. 62.
Page 80. Wycliffe.—The historian discovers that the name of
Wycliffe, has many different forms of spelling. For a full discussion
of these see J. Dahmus, The Prosecution of John Wyclyf (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1952), p. 7.
Page 85. Papal Bulls.
For the original text of the papal bulls issued against Wycliffe with
English translation see J. Dahmus, The Prosecution of John Wyclyf
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952), pp. 35-49; also John Foxe,
Acts and Monuments of the Church (London: Pratt Townsend, 1870),
vol. 3, pp. 4-13.
For a summary of these bulls sent to the archbishop of Canterbury,
to King Edward, and to the chancellor of the University of Oxford,
see Merle D’Aubigne, The History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth
Century (London: Blackie and son, 1885), vol. 4, div. 7, p. 93; August
Neander, General History of the Christian Church (Boston: Crocker
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and Brester, 1862), vol. 5, pp. 146, 147; George Sargeant, History of
the Christian Church (Dallas: Frederick Publishing House, 1948), p.
323; Gotthard V. Lechler, John Wycliffe and his English Precursors
(London: The Religious Tract Society, 1878), pp. 162-164; Philip
Schaff, History of the Christian Church (New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons, 1915), vol. 5, pt. 2, p. 317.
Page 104. Council of Constance.—A primary source on the Coun-
cil of Constance is Richendal Ulrich, Das Concilium so zu Constanz