John Wycliffe questions transubstantiation
1379
The Oxford theologian, already known for his attacks on church wealth and clerical immunity, now denied that the substance of the bread changed in the Eucharist. The doctrinal radicalism cost him his university post but inspired a generation of itinerant preachers, the Lollards, to translate the Bible and challenge Roman authority.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.