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The Lollards attacked the Church as an institution—her wealth and power. The humanists attacked her theology, which had become arid, sophistical and out-of-date. The mystics attacked no one, but unintentionally sapped the foundations of a sacerdotal Church which expressed itself in sacraments and social ordinances.
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Smith, H.M. (1963). The English Mystics. In: Pre-Reformation England. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00406-5_9
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