Conference Archive

This is an archive of the papers presented in sessions sponsored by The Lollard Society. At the top are Conferences we have sponsored (three so far). Below this are panels that have been sponsored by us at the International Conference for Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. The third group were presented at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds. The names and affilations of presenters are as of the time of presentation.


Conferences sponsored by The Lollard Society

Europe After Wyclif, Fordham University, New York, June 2014

Wednesday, June 4th

1:00 PM, First keynote address: “The Lollards and Culture Upheaval in the Later Middle Ages: a Long View from the European Continent,” John Van Engen (Notre Dame)

2:45 PM, Session 1:

Panel 1: “What’s In a Name? Questions of Terminology,”

Chair: Andrew Albin, Fordham

    • “Lollards in Europe When?: Questions for the Year 1309, and after,” Andrew Cole, Princeton
    • A Crusade against the ‘Wycliffites’? Giving Names to Hussite Heresy,” Pavel Soukup, Centre for Medieval Studies, Prague/Humboldt University
    • “Thomas Brinton and John Wyclif: Two sides of Late Medieval Reform in England,” Sean Otto, Toronto

Panel 2: “English and Continental Manuscripts”

Chair: Kathleen Kennedy, Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine

    • “The Wycliffite Bible: Canonical Scriptures or a Collection of Texts?,” Elizabeth Solopova, Oxford
    • “Alphabetizing after Wyclif,” Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
    • “‘They reputyth Englysch pepyll for none nac[iou]n:’ Scriptural Translation and Nationhood in Columbia University Library Plimpton MS 259,” Louisa Foroughi, Fordham

4:15 PM, Session 2:

Panel 3: “The Eucharist”

Chair: Mishtooni Bose (Oxford)

    • “Wyclif and the Physics of the Eucharist: One-Man Armies, Singularities and the Place Problem of Nutrition,” Alex Russell, University of Warwick
    • “The Eucharist at the General Councils of the Early Fifteenth Century,” Thomas Izbicki, Rutgers
    • “Interpreting the Intention of Christ: Roman Responses to Hussite Utraquism,” Ian Christopher Levy, Providence College

Panel 4: “Locality and Insularity”

Chair: Andrew Cole (Princeton)

    • “Continental Artists and the Wycliffite Bible,” Kathleen Kennedy, Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine
    • “English Intellectual Life in the 15th Century: An Insular Mediocrity?,” Kantik Ghosh, Oxford
    • “Wyclif’s Legacy to London: Academic Charisma in the Public Sphere,” Sheila Lindenbaum, Indiana University

Thursday, June 5th

10:00 AM, Session 3:

Panel 5: “International Communication and Textual Transmission”

Chair: Fiona Somerset (University of Connecticut)

    • “The Transmission of Texts and Ideas between Oxford and Prague: Jerome of Prague, John Wyclif and the Later Oxford Realists,” Ota Pavlíček, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
    • “Determinism and Predestination between Oxford and Prague: The Late Wyclif?s Retractationes and their Defence by Peter Payne,” Luigi Campi, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
    • “Wyclif’s Dangerous Legacy: Disagreement, Division and Eucharistic Theology in the Bohemian Vernacular,” Marcela Perett, Bard College, Berlin

Panel 6: “Preaching”

Chair: Robyn Malo, Purdue University

    • “The Making of a ‘trewe cristen’: English Wycliffite Sermons and Christian Formation,” Jennifer Illig, Fordham
    • “The Compendium moralium notabilium: an Early Humanist Florilegium at the Council of Constance,” Chris L. Nighman, Wilfrid Laurier University
    • “A Late Medieval Sacrament? Wyclif’s Idea of Preaching, Its Origins and Impact,” Stephen Pink, Oxford

12:45 PM, Session 4:

Panel 7: “Prophecy and Apocalyptic”

Chair: Marcela Perett, Bard College, Berlin

    • “Schism, War, and Late Medieval Prophecy Collections in England and France,” Magda Hayton, Toronto
    • “Constructing the Apocalypse. Intersections between English and Bohemian Apocalyptic Thinking,” Pavlína Cermanová, Charles University
    • “Fadres of heresie, false apostlis: Antimendicants, Hildegard, and the Problem of Authority,” John Glasenapp, OSB, Columbia

Panel 8: “Practices of Devotion”

Chair: Leah Schwebel, Texas State University

    • “Sin, Confession, and Lay Devotion in Fifteenth-Century England,” Robyn Malo, Purdue University
    • “Lollards and Saints: Contention Revisited,” Allison Alberts, Fordham
    • “Remembering the Ten Commandments before and after Wyclif,” Lucie Doležalová, Charles University

Depart for exhibition / remarks at Morgan Library and Museum (subway, taxis)
Exhibition / remarks at Morgan Library and Museum: Roger Wieck (Morgan Library and Museum)

4:00 PM, Panel on pedagogy (at the Morgan Library and Museum)

Chair: Mary Raschko, Mercer University

    • Phillip Haberkern, History, Boston University
    • Shannon Gayk, English Literature, Indiana University
    • Ian Christopher Levy, Theology, Providence College

Friday, June 6th

Panel sessions

9:30 AM, Session 5:

Panel 9: “Rhetorics of Devotion”

Chair: Andrew Kraebel, Yale

    • “Perish the Thought? Intellection in Religious Experience after Wyclif,” Mishtooni Bose, Oxford
    • “Judas’s Lips: The Arma Christi and Rhetorics of Dissent in Early England,” Shannon Gayk, Indiana University
    • “Re-Forming the Life of Christ,” Mary Raschko Mercer University

Panel 10: “Wycliffites, Hussites, and the Reformation”

Chair: Pavel Soukup, Centre for Medieval Studies, Prague/Humboldt University

    • “Wycliffites and Reformation Drama,” Russ Leo, Princeton
    • “Of Kings and Governors: Exile Polemic and English National Identity,” Seth Lee, University of Kentucky
    • “‘May God prevent a similar end and ruin as the Bohemians!’: Reformation Polemics and the Hussite Revolution as Cautionary Tale,” Phillip Haberkern, Boston University

11:30 AM Second keynote address: “Wyclif, Canon Law, and the Politics of Consent,” Fiona Somerset, University of Connecticut

Concluding remarks / conference response: Michael Van Dussen, McGill

Lollard Affiliations, Oriel College, Oxford, July 2008

Friday, July 11th

2:15 PM, Opening Plenary: Anne Hudson, University of Oxford

4:15 PM, Session 1: “The Philology of Lollardy,” Andrew Cole, Univ. of Georgia

5:15 PM, Session 2:

    • “Wycliffite tropes in Oxford, Bodleian library, MS Digby 102,” Helen Barr, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
    • “Dissenting Views: the fine line between orthodoxy and lollardy in a fifteenth-century devotional anthology” (MS Westminster 3), Amanda Moss, Royal Holloway, London
    • “Wycliffite Tables of Lessons and their Orthodox Appropriation,” Matti Peikola, University of Turku, Finland

Saturday, July 12th

9:30 AM, Session 3: Panel discussion on new directions for research into Lollard affiliations, with questions and answers

    • Ian Forrest, Oriel College, Oxford (History)
    • Shannon Gayk, Indiana University (literature)
    • Kantik Ghosh, Trinity College, Oxford (literature and Intellectual History)
    • Ian Christopher Levy, Lexington Theological Seminary (Theology)

11:30 AM, Session 4:

    • “Lollardy and Social History,” Maureen Jurkowski, University College, London
    • “Lollardy and Social/Cultural/Devotional History,” Rob Lutton, University of Nottingham
    • “Geographies of Orthodoxy: developments in current research,” Ryan Perry and Allan Westphall

2:00 PM, Session 5:

    • “Discarding Traditional Pastoral Ethics: Wycliffism and Slander,” Edwin Craun, Washington and Lee University
    • “Lollard Spirituality,” Fiona Somerset, Duke University

3:00 PM, Session 6:

    • “Lollard attitudes towards Biblical translation,” Mary Dove, University of Sussex
    • “Open Interpretation: Vernacular commentary on the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard,” Mary Raschko, University of North Carolina
    • “‘Roten bones’ and ‘Ydolatry’: Lollard Responses to Relics and Images,” Robyn Malo, Austin College, Sherman, Texas

5:00 PM, Plenary lecture, questions and answers:
Alastair Minnis, Yale University

Sunday, July 13th

9:30 AM, Session 7:

    • “Thomas More and Lollardy,” Thomas Betteridge, Oxford Brookes University
    • “The Reformation Career of Wyclif’s Trialogus,” Stephen E. Lahey, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
    • “The Carmelite Legacy and the Lollards in the Reformation: John Bale, John Foe, and the Fasciculi Zizaniorum,” Thomas S. Freeman

11:30 PM: Plenary lecture, questions and answers: Peter Marshall, University of Warwick

1:00 PM: Concluding Remarks
Mishtooni Bose, Christ Church, Oxford

LollardPalooza, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 10-11, 2005

March 10:
Plenary Address, Anne Hudson

March 11:

    • “Wretchedness and its Pleasures in the Pore Caitif,” Moira Fitzgibbon, Marist College
    • Fiona Somerset, Duke University
    • Paul Olsen, University of Nebraska
    • “‘Sensible Signes’: Reginald Pecock, Images, and the Vernacular Rhetorics of Sense,” Shannon Gayk, University of Notre Dame
    • “Establishing an Authoritative Vernacular: Reginald Pecock and The Reule of Chrysten Religioun,” Kirsty Campbell, University of Toronto
    • “Wyclif’s Soteriology,” Ian Levy, Lexington Theological Seminary
    • “The Epistle of James and the Transformation of Lollard Soteriology, 1380-1520,” Patrick Hornbeck, St. Cross College, Oxford
    • “Aquinas and Wyclif on the Virtues,” Angelica Settell, University of Nebraska
    • “Losing Time: John Wyclif and Scriptural Narratology,” Stephen Penn, University of Stirling
    • “Wyclif and the Concord of Faith and Reason: Understanding the Opening Chapters of De Trinitate,” Stephen Lahey, University of Nebraska


Papers presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies

56th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 9–11, 2024).

Sessions taking place on Thursday 9 May.

On Gowerian Poetics, in Honor of Alastair J. Minnis (co-hosted by the John Gower Society; Organizers: Robyn A. Bartlett, Purdue Univ. and Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Moderator: Richard Firth Green, Ohio State Univ.)

    • “John Gower, Crafty Bilingual,” Tim William Machan, Univ. of Notre Dame
    • Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia and Gower’s Process of Revision,” Eric Weiskott, Boston College
    • “Gower’s Wycliffian Conundrum,” R. F. Yeager, Univ. of West Florida
    • “Language, Labor, and Materiality in the Confessio Amantis,” Ethan Knapp, Ohio State Univ.

Chaucer’s Authorities: A Roundtable in Honor of Alastair J. Minnis (Organizers: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ. and Robyn A. Bartlett, Purdue Univ.; Moderator: Jessica Brantley, Yale Univ.)

    • A roundtable discussion with Richard Firth Green, Ohio State Univ.; Sarah Elliott Novacich, Rutgers Univ.; Samantha Katz Seal, Univ. of New Hampshire; Robyn A. Bartlett

Lay Learning and Holy Women, in Honor of Alastair J. Minnis (Organizers: Robyn A. Bartlett, Purdue Univ. and Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Moderator: Ann E. Killian, Ohio Dominican Univ.)

    • “Cecily Neville and Margaret Beaufort Learning from Birgitta of Sweden,” Laura Saetveit Miles, Univ. i Bergen
    • “Lollard Women Liturgists? Lay ‘Conventicles’ and Domestic Rituals,” Michael Van Dussen
    • “The Confessions of (Un)holy Women in Medieval Romance,” Gina Marie Hurley, Yale Univ.

56th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 10-15, 2021).

Sessions took place on Monday, May 10th.

Centers, Peripheries, and Networks of Reform in the Fifteenth Century (Co-hosted by the Jean Gerson Society; Organizer and Moderator: Michael Van Dussen, McGill University)

    • “Negotiating Religious Peace: The Peace of Kutná Hora as a Hopeful Solution to a Half Century of Conflict,” Lisa Scott, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
    • “Jakoubek and the Donatists,” Stephen Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln
    • “Come Back to the Roman Side, We Have Indulgences: Enacting Reform in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia,” Jan Volek, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities

Form and Reform: Late Medieval Encyclopedic Experimentations (Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Moderator: Stephen Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln)

    • “Holy Encyclopedism: Stephen Batman’s Middle Ages,” Emily Steiner, Univ. of Pennsylvania
    • “Thomas Gascoigne on Antichrist and the Jews,” Michael Van Dussen
    • “Translating Rome: Form and Reform in Middle English Historical Compendia,” Zachary E. Stone, McGill Univ.

55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 7-10, 2020) (Cancelled).

Session would have taken place on Thursday, May 7th.

Centers, Peripheries, and Networks of Reform in the Fifteenth Century (Co-hosted by the Jean Gerson Society; Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Matthew Vanderpoel, Univ. of Chicago; Moderator: Michael Van Dussen)

    • “Jakoubek of Stříbro and the Donatists,” Stephen E. Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln
    • “Come Back to the Roman Side, We Have Indulgences: Enacting Reform in
      Fifteenth-Century Bohemia,” Jan Volek, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
    • “Negotiating Religious Peace: The Peace of Kutná Hora as Hopeful Solution to a
      Half Century of Conflict,” Lisa Scott, Independent Scholar

54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 9-12, 2019).

Sessions took place on Saturday, May 11th.

Medieval Sermon Studies IV: Preaching Division in Late Medieval Europe (Co-hosted by the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society; Lollard Society; Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Moderator: Reid S. Weber, Univ. of Central Oklahoma)

    • “Wyclif ’s ‘Poor Priests’: An Anti-Fraternal Preaching Order?,” Sean Otto, Wycliffe College, Univ. of Toronto (cancelled)
    • “The Case of Self-Serving Catechesis: Jan Hus and His Preaching,” Marcela K. Perett, North Dakota State Univ. (cancelled)
    • “‘Hoc pulchrum mendacium’: Wycliffite Exempla on Christ the Divine Physician,” Patrick Outhwaite, McGill Univ.

Late Medieval Religion and Religious Controversy (A Roundtable) (Co-hosted by the Center for Austrian Studies, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities; Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Jan Volek, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities; Presider: Jan Volek)

    • A roundtable discussion with:
      • K. A. Tuley, Univ. of Minnesota–Twin Cities
      • Kathryn McDonald-Miranda, Univ. of Akron
      • Jamie McCandless, Kennesaw State Univ.; and
      • Lisa Scott, Univ. of Chicago

53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 10-13, 2018).

The first two sessions were held on Friday, May 11th, and the third session was on Saturday, May 12th.

Social Justice in the Piers Plowman Tradition (Co-hosted by the International Piers Plowman Society; Organizer: Elizaveta Strakhov, Marquette Univ.; Michael Calabrese, California State Univ.–Los Angeles; Moderator: Elizaveta Strahkov and Michael Calabrese)

    • “Piers Plowman’s Limbs,” Micah Goodrich, Univ. of Connecticut
    • “Natural Justice and ‘Kinde Konninge’ in Alexander and Dindimus,” Thomas Hahn, Univ. of Rochester
    • “‘Leten I nelle that eche man shal have his’: Confession as Social Justice in Piers
      Plowman,” Amanda Leary, Purdue Univ.
    • “No Pretensions, No Presumptions: Piers Plowman and the Path to Agency,” Marjorie F. Smith, Pasadena City College

Constructing the Wycliffite Bible (Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Moderator: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Connecticut)

    • “Toward a New Edition of the Wycliffite Bible,” Elizabeth Solopova, Univ. of Oxford
    • “Literacy and the Constructed Artifact,” David Lavinsky, Yeshiva Univ.
    • “Bodleian Library, Oxford MS Bodl.554 and William Thorpe’s Psalter,” Michael Kuczynski, Tulane Univ.

Unmystical Rolle (Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Andrew Kraebel, Trinity
Univ.; Moderator: Steven Rozenski, Univ. of Rochester)

    • “Demystifying Heavenly Song: ‘Canor’ and the Devotional Text,” Timothy Glover, Univ. of Oxford
    • “Strong Women and Scribal Authors,” Andrew Kraebel
    • “The Hussite Context of Rolle’s Latin Psalter,” Petra Mutlová, Masaryk Univ.; Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.

52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 11-14, 2017).

The first session took place on Thursday, May 11th, and the second and third took place on Sunday, May 14th

Constructing the Wycliffite Bible (Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Moderator: Kathleen Kennedy, Pennsylvania State Univ.–Brandywine)

    • “Finding Aids and the Construction of Literacy in Wycliffite Biblical Manuscripts,” David Lavinsky, Yeshiva Univ.
    • “Towards a New Edition of the Wycliffite Bible,” Elizabeth Solopova, Univ. of Oxford
    • “Bodleian Library, Oxford MS Bodl.554 and William Thorpe’s Psalter,” Michael P. Kuczynski, Tulane Univ.

Beguines and the Transformations of Urban Piety on the Eastern Periphery of Late Medieval Christendom (Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Moderator: Julia Verkholantsev, Univ. of Pennsylvania)

    • “Henry Harrer’s Tractatus contra beghardos: The Polish and Czech Dominican
      Response to Early Fourteenth-Century Heresies,” Tomasz Gałuszka, Univ. Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
    • “The Bohemian Beguines Lost in Oblivion,” Pavlína Cermanová, Centrum medievistických studií
    • “The Inquisitor at Work: John of Schwenkenfeld, O.P., and His Inquiry into the
      Beguines in Świdnica,” Paweł Kras, Katolicki Univ. Lubelski Jana Pawła II

Reformation in Faith and [Feeling] Like Saints (Organizer and Moderator: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.)

    • “The Wordes of Poule,” Michael Sargent, Queens College, CUNY
    • “Hilton on Paul,” Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Connecticut
    • “‘[H]o so haþ clene affectioun in his soule’: Conservative Affectivity and the Middle English Meditiationes de passione Christi,” Ryan Perry, Univ. of Kent
    • “Love: Is It More than a Feeling?,” Robyn Malo, Purdue Univ.

51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 12-15, 2016).

Sessions took place on Friday, May 13th.

Lollardy and Literature (Organizer: Mary Raschko, Whitman College; Robyn Malo, Purdue Univ.; Moderator: Robyn Malo)

    • “Exaggerating the Effects of Arundel’s Constitutions on Literary Production,” Henry Ansgar Kelly, Univ. of California–Los Angeles
    • “The Nature of the Question in the Vernacular: Lollardy and the Laity,” Erika D. Harman, Univ. of Pennsylvania
    • “Literary Lollards: Forms of Faith, Arts of Polemic,” Mary Raschko
    • Respondent: Emily Steiner, Univ. of Pennsylvania

What Do We Mean by Devotion? (Organizer: Mary Raschko, Whitman College; Robyn Malo, Purdue Univ.: Moderator: Mary Raschko)

    • “Devotion: Medieval and Modern,” Michelle Karnes, Stanford Univ.
    • “Translating the Myroure “More Openly”: Devotional Reading and Wycliffite Hermeneutics at Syon Abbey,” Michelle Ripplinger, Univ. of California–Berkeley
    • “Devotion and ‘The Literary’,” Jessica Brantley, Yale Univ.
    • Respondent: Nicholas Watson, Harvard Univ

50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 14-17, 2015).

Sessions took place on Saturday, May 16th.

Lollards, Getting Formal (Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ., and Mary Raschko, Whitman College; Moderator: Mary Raschko)

    • “The Metrical Style of Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede,” Ian Cornelius, Yale Univ.
    • “Forming Holiness in a Lollard Devotional Collection,” Nicole R. Rice, St. John’s Univ., New York
    • “Lollardy and the Forms of Vernacular Scripture: Annotating Oon of Foure,”
      Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State Univ.–Las Cruces

In Honor of Christina von Nolcken II: Another Kind of Saint: Wycliffite Hagiographies (Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ., and Mary Raschko, Whitman College; Moderator: Michael Van Dussen)

    • “Blessed Hildegard: Another Kind of Lollard Saint,” Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Connecticut
    • “’As Innocent as a Saynt’: Contesting Sainthood in More and Foxe,” Erin Wagner, Ohio State Univ.
    • “Saints for All Seasons? John Wyclif’s Sanctorale Sermons,” Sean Otto, Wycliffe College, Univ. of Toronto

49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 8-11, 2014).

Session took place on Saturday, May 10th.

What Is a Wycliffite Book? (Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ., and Robyn Malo, Purdue Univ.; Moderator: Robyn Malo)

    • “What Is a Wycliffite Bible?,” Mary Raschko, Mercer Univ.
    • “Re-evaluating the Lollard Sub-group of Manuscripts containing The Prick of
      Conscience,” Ann Killian, Yale Univ.
    • “Lollard Diplomatics,” Stephen Yeager, Concordia Univ.
    • “This Is Not a Lollard Book,” Zachary E. Stone, Univ. of Virginia

48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 9-12, 2013).

Sessions took place on Friday, May 10th, and Staurday, May 11th, respectively.

Last Things (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Connecticut; Moderator: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.)

    • “Care of the Self at the End of the Middle Ages,” Amy Appleford, Boston Univ.
    • “What We Talk About When We Talk about Death,” David K. Coley, Simon Fraser Univ.
    • “Christine de Pizan’s Apocalyptic Vision of History,” Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Univ. of Toronto

Biblical Mediation and Remediation (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Connecticut; Moderator: Michael G. Sargent, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY)

    • “Trial Narratives, Biblical Mediation, and Anne Askew’s Books,” Clare Costley King’oo, Univ. of Connecticut
    • “Biblical Drama as Reform,” Emma Maggie Solberg, Univ. of Virginia
    • “Romancing the Cross: Fiction and Faith in the Bible historiale,” Jeanette Patterson, Princeton Univ.

47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 9-13, 2012).

All sessions took place on Thursday, May 10th.

Influence or Interchange? Vernacular and Scholarly Cultures (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Fordham Univ.)

    • “Unlocking the Barn Door: Vernacular Doctrine and Its Audience in the Thirteenth Century,” Claire M. Waters, Univ. of Virginia
    • “Do What You Can: Pearl’s Vineyard Parable and Fourteenth-Century Pelagianism,” James Knowles, North Carolina State Univ.
    • “Aristotle and Antichrist,” Kellie Robertson, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison

Historiographies of Feeling (A Roundtable) (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Fiona Somerset)

    • A roundtable discussion with Sarah McNamer, Georgetown Univ.; Russell Leo, Princeton Univ.; Sara Ritchey, Univ. of Louisiana–Lafayette; Andrew Romig, New York Univ.; Holly Crocker, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia; Matthew W. Irvin, Sewanee: The Univ. of the South

Religious Practice (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Elizabeth Schirmer, Univ. of New Mexico)

    • “Manuscript Evidence for Readings of the Christian Catechism: The Ten Commandments in English Rhyme, ca. 1200–1500,” Elisabeth Salter, Aberystwyth Univ.
    • “‘Stories of the elde testament’: Literary Reading and Lollard Biblical Scholarship,” David Lavinsky, Yeshiva Univ.
    • “Picking up Change: A Manuscript Available to Lollard Reformers and Restoration Catholics,” Pamela Troyer, Metropolitan State College of Denver
    • “Religious Practices in the Early Fifteenth Century: A Theology of Mystery,” Kevin Alban, Institutum Carmelitanum

46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 12-15, 2011).

All sessions took place on Friday, May 12th.

Versions of the Bible (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Kathleen Kennedy, Pennsylvania State Univ.-Brandywine)

    • “Concatenations: Biblical, Lollard,” Michael P. Kuczynski, Tulane Univ.
    • “Literal versus O: The To Versions of the Middle English Bible (fka Wycliffite Bible),” Henry Ansgar Kelly, Univ. of California-Los Angeles, and Leslie K. Arnovick, Univ. of British Columbia
    • “The Wycliffite Bible Prologues and the Translation of Academic Discourse,” Andrew Brock Kraebel, Yale Univ.

Lollard Orthodoxies (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State Univ.)

    • “Heresy by Any Other Name? Terminology in Flux and the Study of Wyclif and His Latin Sermons,” Sean Otto, Wycliffe College, Univ. of Toronto
    • “The Trouble with Tales in Jacob’s Well,” Rachael Deagman, Wake Forest Univ.
    • “‘Short Praier’ in Middle English Orthodox Ratings and the Wycliffite Egerton Sermon,” Alastair Bennett, Canterbury Christ Church Univ.
    • “Is Holy Land the Huntington?: Wyclif, Evangelicals, and Academics,” Jana Matthews, Rollins College

Lollard Geographies (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Stephen A. Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln

    • “North and South? Provenance and Alliteration in the Lollard Sermons,” Stephen Yeager, Concordia Univ.
    • “‘Homlynes with mercers of London’: The Wycliffite Treatises of the Fyler Manuscript and the Books of a London Mercer Social Network,” Mary Agnes Edsall, Bowdoin Univ.
    • “Is There a Geography to Lollardy?,” J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Fordham Univ.

45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 13-16, 2010).

All sessions took place Friday, May 14th.

England and Internation (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Derrick Pitard, Slippery Rock Univ.)

    • “Orthodox Performed in Early Fifteenth–Century Europe: England and the Continent,” Kevin Alban, Carmelite Institute, Rome
    • “Wyclif, Wycliffism, and the Hussites: Sorting Out the Problem of “Influence”,” Stephen Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • “Rumors Forgeries, and the Problem of Wyclif’s Bones,” Michael Van Dussen, McGill University

Fifteenth–Century Books (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: John Thompson, Queen’s Univ. Belfast)

    • “Radical Catechesis: The Middle English Visitation of the Sick and Its Books,” Amy Appleford Boston Univ.
    • “A Defensive Devotion: A Lollard Pore Caitiff in British library MS Harley 2322,” Nicole Rice, St. John’s Univ.
    • “Richard Rolle and His Fifteenth–Century Readers: CUL Kk.6.20 and Bodleian library Laud Misc. 286,” Katherine Zieman, Univ. of Notre Dame

Shifting Paradigms (Co-hosted by the Yearbook of Langland Studies / International Piers Plowman Society; Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Kellie Robertson, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

    • “Wycliffite Vernacularity,” Derrick Pitard, Slippery Rock University
    • “A Polemical Glossed Gospel” Mary Raschko, Mercer Univ.
    • “Ostentatious Orthodoxy: e Musaeo 35 and Spectacular Religiosity in Fifteenth–Century England,” R.D. Perry, Univ. of California-Berkeley

44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 7-10, 2009).

All sessions took place Friday, May 8th.

After Arundel (1409–1439) (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Derrick Pitard, Slippery Rock Univ.)

    • “The Impact of Carmelite spirituality on Responses to Lollardy,” Kevin Alban, Carmelite Institute, Rome
    • “The Bonaventuran Franchise: Meditation and the Mixed life in Middle English Lives of Christ,” Allan Fogh Westphall, Univ. of St. Andrews
    • “Lives of Christ after Arundel: Texts, Books, and Bedfellows,” Ian Johnson, Univ. of St. Andrews

After Chichele (1440–1499) (Organizer and Moderator: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.)

    • “Reginald Pecock’s Lessons in Visual Literacy,” Shannon Gayk, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
    • “After Chichele: “John Bury contra Pecock” Revisited,” Mishtooni Bose, Christ Church, Univ. of Oxford
    • “Lollards after Chichele?,” J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Fordham Univ.

Fourteenth-Century Religious Writings (Co-hosted by the Yearbook of Langland Studies / International Piers Plowman Society; Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Kellie Robertson, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

    • “From Interpretation to Invention: Literary Ethics in England, ca. 1385,” Ryan McDermott, Univ. of Virginia
    • “Lollard Book Production and Richard Rolle’s English Psalter,” Jill C. Havens, Texas Christian Univ.
    • “Between England and Bohemia: Churchmen in Rome and the Transmission of Devotional Texts,” Michael Van Dussen, Ohio State Univ.

43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 8-11, 2008).

All sessions took place on Saturday, May 12th

Reformist Orthodoxies and Unorthodoxies in the Fifteenth Century (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Derrick G. Pitardt, Slippery Rock Univ. of Pennsylvania)

    • “Groping Thomas and Late Medieval Belief,” Valerie Allen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
    • “Bokenham’s Legenda Aurea and Fifteenth-century ‘Reformist Hagiography,'” Karen Winstead, Ohio State Univ.-Columbus
    • “Books of Suspicion? The Pricking of Love and Non-Wycliffite Heresy,” Allen F. Westphall, Univ. of St. Andrews
    • Respondent: Vincent Gillespie, Lady Margaret Hall, Univ. of Oxford

Lollardy in Context (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; CrucesModerator: Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State Univ.-Las Cruces)

    • “On the Six Yokes: Wyclif’s Guide for Extemporaneous Teaching,” Stephen Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • “Robert Thornton and the Opening of the London Thornton Manuscript: An Orthodox History,” Emily Everett, Methodist Univ.
    • “Another ‘Lollere in the Wynd’? The Miller, the Bible, and Nicholas’s Door,” Christina von Nolcken, Univ. of Chicago
    • “How Do We Know What the Lollard Canon Is?”, Lawrence M. Clopper, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington

This year we also co-sponsored two other sessions with the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research Group from the Univ. of Washington-Seattle and the Yearbook of Langland Studies (sessions were organized by Jen Gonyer-Donohue, Univ. of Washington-Seattle):

John Trevisa: Papers in Memory of David C. Fowler (Organizer: Jen Gonyer-Donohue, Univ. of Washington–Seattle; Moderator: Miceal Vaughan, Univ. of Washington-Seattle)

    • “Fowler, Fowler, and Murray: The Problem of Usage in Trevisa,” David Greetham, Graduate Center, CUNY
    • “What Trevisa did to Fitzralph’s Defensio Curatorum,” T.P. Dolan, Univ. College, Dublin
    • “Work in Progress: John Trevisa and David C. Fowler,” Paul C. Remley, Univ. of Washington-Seattle
    • Respondent: Charles F. Briggs, Georgia Southern Univ.

Piers Plowman: Papers in Memory of David C. Fowler (Organizer: Jen Gonyer-Donohue, Univ. of Washington–Seattle; Moderator: Clinton Atchley, Henderson State Univ.)

    • “Translation and Manipation: Understanding the Latin in Piers Plowman,” Kisha G. Tracy, Univ. of Connecticut
    • “The Shifting Cult of Saints in the A, B, and C Texts of Piers Plowman,” Tod Rygh, Univ. of Washington-Seattle
    • “The Demonic Truth in William Langland’s Piers Plowman,” Natalena Eas, Tel Aviv Univ.
    • Respondent: Richard K. Emmerson, Florida State Univ.

42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 10-13, 2007).

All sessions took place on Saturday, May 12th.

Before the Lollards (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Texas Christian Univ.)

    • “‘The Lawe and the Lore to Knawe God All-Mighten’: Archbishop Thoresby and the Vernacular of the North,” Sarah James, Univ. of Kent
    • “Rolle’s Canor: Mystical Authority and Extragrammatical Meaning,” Katherine Zieman, Univ. of Notre Dame
    • “Walter Hilton as a Pre-Wycliffite Writer,” Michael Sargent, Queens College, CUNY
    • Respondent: Kathryn Kerby Fulton, Univ. of Notre Dame

Fifteenth-Century Publics (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Paul Strohm, Columbia Univ.)

    • “The Political Virtues and Their Public in Late Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England ,” Charles F. Briggs, Georgia Southern Univ.
    • “‘A Kyngdom in Comouns Lyes’: The Digby Poems and the Idea of Public Poetry,” Helen Barr, Lady Margaret Hall, Univ. of Oxford
    • “Widening or Narrowing: The English Public towards 1500,” John Watts, Corpus Christi College, Univ. of Oxford

Lives of Christ in Late Medieval England (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Michael G. Sargent, Queens College, CUNY)

    • “Challenging Conformities and Middle English Lives of Christ,” Ian Johnson, Univ. of St. Andrews
    • “Uses of Affective Piety in the Siege of Jerusalem,” Emily Leverett, Ohio State Univ.
    • “Lollard Canons and other Outer Manuscripts: The Case of Huntington library, MS HM 501” Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State Univ.
    • “Incarnational Epistemologies and Incarnational Poetics: Reading and Writing Lives of Christ in Later Medieval English Texts,” Nancy Bradley Warren, Florida State Univ.

41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 4-7, 2006).

All sessions took place on Friday, May 5th.

The Fifteenth Century I: Poetry and Politics After Lollardy (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Kellie Robertson, Univ. of Pittsburgh).

    • “Death in Dialogue: Hoccleve, Suso, and the Ars Sciendi Moriendi,” Ethan Knapp, Ohio State Univ.
    • “Thomas Hoccleve, Wycliffism, and Late Medieval Political Discourse,” Robin Wharton, Univ. of Georgia
    • “Hoccleve and Heresy,” John J. Thompson, Queen’s Univ. Belfast

The Fifteenth Century II: Religious Writing After Lollardy (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Texas Christian Univ.).

    • “Representing Reading in Dives and Pauper,” Elizabeth Schrimer, New Mexico State Univ.
    • “Rolle’s English Psalter and Late Medieval Pastoral Theology: The Case of the Lollards,” David Lavinsky, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    • “The Forest and the Tree: Metaphors for Translation in a Fifteenth-Century Passion Meditation,” Catherine Innes-Parker, Univ. of Prince Edward Island

The Fifteenth Century III: Translation After Lollardy (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Derrick G. Pitard, Slippery Rock University).

    • “Translation as Dissent: Orthodox Resistance in Fifteenth-Century Saint’s Lives,” Karen Winstead, Ohio State Univ.
    • “Markys . . . off the Workman’: Heresy, Hagiography, and the Heavens in Lydgate’s Pilgrimage of the life of Man,” Lisa H. Cooper, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
    • “‘Thow lei Yow Calle Lollard’: Lollard and Reformist Hagiography in John Capgrave’s life of Saint Catherine,” Shannon Gayk, Indiana University-Bloomington

Lollards and Allegory (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Katherine Little, Fordam Univ.)

    • “Wyclif’s Allegorical Sense,” Alastair Minnis, Ohio State Univ.
    • “Preaching the Substance of the Saints: Lollardy, Allegory, and the teral Sense of Sanctity,” Jennifer Jahner, Univ. of Colorado-Boder
    • “The Family Tree in Pecock and Benjamin Minor,” Suzanne Conklin, Univ. of Toronto

Crossing Borders: An Interdiscipnary Roundtable on Heresy (Co-hosted by Heretics Without Borders and the Lollard Society; Organizer: Holly J. Grieco, Bryn Mawr College, Andrew E. Larsen, Marquette Univ., and Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Andrew Larsen).

    • A roundtable discussion with:
      • Stephen Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
      • Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.
      • J. Patrick Hornbeck, Christ Church, Univ. of Oxford
      • Susan Taylor-Snyder, Benedictine College
      • Mark Gregory Pegg, Washington Univ.
      • Louisa A Burnham, Middlebury College

40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 5-8, 2005).

All sessions took place on Thursday, May 5th.

Engendering Lollardy (Organizer: Emily Steiner, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Texas Christian Univ.)

    • “The Trouble with Lollardy,” Mishtooni Bose, Christ Church, Univ. of Oxford
    • “Lollard, Not Lollardy: The Case of St. Erkenwald,” Jennifer Sisk, Yale Univ.
    • “Lollard Disaffection and the History of Emotion,” Sarah McNamer, Georgetown Univ.
    • Respondent: Andrew Cole, Univ. of Georgia

Lollard Genres (Organizer: Emily Steiner, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Moderator: Derrick Pitard, Slippery Rock Univ. of Pennsylvania)

    • “Antifraternalism, the Hermeneutic Ideal, and Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede,” Kate Crassons, Lehigh Univ.
    • “Preaching the libri laicorum: Lollard Sermons and the Image Debates,” Shannon Gayk, Univ. of Notre Dame
    • “Preaching by Genre: Sermons in the Lollard Controversy,” Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State Univ.
    • Respondent, Christina von Nolcken, Univ. of Chicago

Lollardy and Ritual (Organizer: Emily Steiner, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Moderator: Katherine Little, Fordham Univ.)

    • “Lollard Prayers,” Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.
    • “Lollard Liturgy,” Katherine Zieman, Wesleyan Univ.
    • “A Mass of Lollards,” Bruce Holsinger, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder

39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 6-9, 2004).

All sessions took place on Friday, May 7th.

Latin to Vernacular: Trickle down Theology? (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Emily Steiner, Univ. of Pennsylvania)

    • “Lollardy in the Image of Grosseteste,” Michelle Karnes, University of Pennsylvania
    • “Lollard Imagination: From Latin to Vernacular Theology,” A.J. Minnis, Ohio State Univ.
    • “The Glossed Gospels: A Lollard Adaptation of Latin Biblical Exegesis to a Lay Audience,” Marina Davidson, Independent Scholar

Biographies of Lollardy (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Ethan Kapp, Ohio State Univ.)

    • “Who were the East Angan Lollards?,” Maureen Jurkowski, Univ. College, Univ. of London
    • “Wyclif’s Use of the Fathers in His Sermon on the Mount Commentary,” Stephen Lahey, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • “From Oxford to Dallas: The Biography of a Wycliffite Bible,” Jill C.Havens, Texas Christian Univ.

38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 8-11, 2003).

Sessions took place from Friday through Sunday.

Literary Experimentation in Lollard Writings: Genres, Modes, Conceits (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Derrick Pitard, Slippery Rock Univ.)

    • “Writing the Lollard Theology of Marriage,” A. J. Minnis, Ohio State Univ.
    • “The Wycliffite Sermons as ‘Skilful Texts’,” Mishtooni Bose, Univ. of Southampton
    • “Lollards and Fables,” Katherine Little, Fordham University

Unity and Division: Lollards and Others (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Mishtooni Bose, Univ. of Southampton)

    • “‘Modern’ Jews and Lollard Hermeneutics,” Ruth Nissé, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • “Myths of Antimendicantism: Wycliff, Fitzralph, and the Discourse of Exclusion,” Stephen Penn, Univ. of Stirling
    • “Lollards, Jews, and Lawyers: An Orthodox Campaign against Lollard Ideology,” Judy Ann Ford, Texas A&M Univ.-Commerce

Lollards and the Court (Co-hosted by the White Hart Society; Organizer:  Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Baylor Univ.)

    • “John Purvey and Gaunt’s Third Marriage,” Richard Firth Green, Ohio State Univ.
    • “Court, Craft, and Cleanness in the Lollard Controversy,” Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State Univ.
    • “The Lollard Saracen: Religion and Theological Discussion in the Sege of Melayne,” Emily Leverett, Ohio State Univ.
    • Respondent: Christopher Given-Wilson, Univ. of St. Andrews

Langlandian Canons: The Piers Plowman Tradition (Co-hosted by the Yearbook of Langland Studies; Organizer: Andrew Cole, Univ. of Georgia, and Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Moderator: D. Vance Smith, Princeton Univ.)

    • “Bags of Books: The Threat of the Itinerant and the Undocumented Document,” Stella Singer, Univ. of Pennsylvania
    • “Piers Plowman and Alexander and Dindimus???,” Frank Grady, Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis
    • “Breaking Ground: Song of the Husbandman in the Plowman Tradition,” Steve Werkmeister, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln

37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, (May 2-5, 2002).

All sessions took place on Friday, May 3rd.

Lollards and Aesthetics (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario; Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Baylor Univ.)

    • “Lollard Ekphrasis (And Why It Matters),” Bruce Holsinger, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
    • “Performing Lollard Theology: The Narrative of William Thorpe,” Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State Univ.
    • “Passion and Persuasion: The voice of brennynge loue in Rylands MS Eng. 85,” Andy Cockbain, University of Western Ontario
    • Respondent: Nicholas Watson, Harvard University

Lollardy and Audience (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario; Moderator: Derrick Pitard, Slippery Rock Univ.)

    • “Lollers in the Wind,” Lynn Staley, Colgate Univ.
    • “Attribution, Authorship, and Audience in ‘Of Wedded Men and Wifis and of Here Children Also,” Eve Salisbury, Western Michigan Univ.
    • “Reading Arundel’s Reading: Hermeneutical Conflict and the Craft of Representation in Thorpe’s Testimony,” William Rankin, Abilene Christian University
    • Respondent: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, University of Victoria

36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, (May 3-6, 2001).

All sessions took place on Saturday, May 5th.

Beyond the Binary: Reconsiderations of the relationship between heresy and orthodoxy (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario; Moderator: Jill Havens, Baylor University)

    • “Prosecution for Heresy in England, 1166-1399,” Andrew Larsen, University of Wisconsin – Madison
    • “The Production of Heresy: Lollardy and Inquisitorial Discourse,” John H. Arnold, University of East Anglia
    • “Heresy, Orthodoxy, and English Vernacular Devotion: The Books and Prayers of the Coventry Lollards,” Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University

Responses to Lollardy (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario; Moderator: Derrick Pitard, Slippery Rock University)

    • “Critics and Commonalities,” Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
    • “Image and Relic in Medieval Romance,” Suzanne Conkn Akbari, University of Toronto
    • “Latin and Vernacular Responses to Lollardy: Dymmok, Netter, and Pecock,” Mishtooni Bose, University of Southampton

Poverty and Labour in Late Medieval England (co-sponsored with the Yearbook of Langland Studies; Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario; Moderator: Kellie Robertson, University of Pittsburgh)

    • “Poverty: Langland and Wyclif,” David Aers, Duke University
    • “Changing Conceptions of Poverty and the Sermon of William Taylor,” Kate Crassons, Duke University
    • “Piers Plowman at the End of History: Langland’s Eschatology of Labor,” Lawrence Scanlon, Rutgers University

Latin and Vernacular in Gower and Lollard Writers (Organizers: R. F. Yeager, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville, and Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario; Moderator: Fiona Somerset)

    • “Gower on Images: Vox Clamantis II.10.,” Peter Brown, Univ. of Kent/Canterbury
    • “‘Among the bokes of latin’: Reading Latin and Writing English in Gower’s Confessio Amantis,” Siân Echard, Univ. of British Columbia

35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 4-7, 2000).

All sessions took place on Saturday, May 6th.

The English Wycliffite Sermons: Vernacular Contexts (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario; Moderator: Derrick Pitard, Slippery Rock Univ.)

    • “A Fifteenth Century Vernacular Collection: Proto-Lollard or Something Else?,” Ruth Evans, Cardiff University
    • “Contexts for the Life of the Soul”: the English Wycliffite Sermons,” Paul Schaffner, University of Michigan
    • “Sermons and Pastoral Theology in Late Medieval England,” Christopher Manion, Ohio State University

Lollardy and Sanctity (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario; Moderator: Emily Steiner, Univ. of Pennsylvania)

    • “Sanctity and Authority: Some Lollard Saints Revisited,” Christina Van Nolcken, Univ. of Chicago
    • “The Other Reformers: the Franciscans and the Lollards and Wyclif,” Lawrence Clopper, Indiana Univ.
    • Respondent: David Aers

Lollards and their Books (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario; Moderator: Geoffrey Martin, Univ. of Exeter)

    • “‘Trewe teching and false heretikis’: Some Lollard Manuscripts of the ‘Pore Caitif’,” Kalpen Trivedi, Univ. of Manchester
    • “‘Go awey from me ye cursid lymes’: Eschatological Gloom in the Lantern of Light,” Nicholas Watson, Univ. of Western Ontario

34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 6th-10th, 1999).

All sessions took place on Thursday, May 6th.

Lollardy and the Langland Tradition (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario
Moderator: Derrick Pitard, Slippery Rock Univ.)

    • “‘Lolleres,’ Lollards, and the Evolving Text of Piers Plowman,” David Lawton, Washington University in St Louis
    • “The ‘Piers Plowman’ C-Text and the Lollard Tradition,” Andrew Walters Cole, Duke Univ.
    • Respondent: Andrew Galloway, Cornell University

Wycliffism in Oxford, 1377-1410 (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario
Moderator: Jill Havens, Baylor Univ.)

    • “Preludes to Wyclif: Academic Condemnation and Intellectual Freedom at Oxford, 1277-1377,” Andrew Larsen, University of Wisconsin Madison
    • “Here, There, and Everywhere?: Wycliffite Conceptions of the Eucharist,” Fiona Somerset, University of Western Ontario
    • “Wyclif and Purvey: Convergence and Divergence,” Ian C. Levy, Marquette University
    • Respondent: Geoffrey Martin, University of Exeter

Lollardy and Women (Organizer and Moderator: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario)

    • “Reading Women Into Lollardy,” Katherine Little, Duke University
    • “‘Feed My Sheep’: Concepts of Spiritual Food/Feeding and the Possibity of Women ‘Sheep-Feeders’ in Lollard Lterature,” Laurie Ringer, University of Hull
    • “Hussite Women as Readers and Writers,” Alfred Thomas, Harvard University
    • Respondent: Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University

33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 6th-10th, 1998).

All sessions took place on Friday, May 8th.

Lollardy and Performance (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, University of Western Ontario; Moderator: Ruth Nisse, U of Nebraska at Lincoln)

    • “Conflicts in Wycliffite Models of Discipleship: Some Ethical and Political Implications,” David Aers, Duke University
    • “The Common Ground of Scripture: Interpretation and Instruction in the English Wycliffite Sermons,” Katherine Little, Duke University
    • “God’s ‘hee frawde’: Incarnation as Theater in the Second Shepherds’ Play,” Laura King, Yale University
    • Respondent: Ruth Nisse, U of Nebraska at Lincoln

Lollards, Lancastrians, and the Crisis of Late Medieval England (Organizer and Moderator: Fiona Somerset, University of Western Ontario)

    • “Burning Sautre: From Speech-Act to Symbolic Action,” Paul Strohm, Indiana University
    • “Faith in the Vicarius Dei, Disdain for the Princeps Presbytorum : Lollard Political Theory and Practice, 1379-1415,” Daniel E. Theiry, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
    • “The Making of Images in Hoccleve’s ‘Address to Sir John Oldcastle’,” Ethan Knapp, The Ohio State University

Lollards and Censorship (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Western Ontario; Moderator: Kellie Robertson, Southern Illinois U at Carbondale)

    • “Curious Motets: Vernacular Censorship, Musical Innovation, and Lancastrian cultural Patronage in the Early Fifteenth Century,” Bruce Holsinger, U of Colorado at Denver
    • “Manuscript Tradition and Circulation of Repyndon’s ‘Sermones super evangelia dominicalia’ in the 15th Century,” Simon Forde, Brepols Pubshing
    • “The ‘Charters of Christ’ and Strategies of Internal Censorship,” Emily Steiner, Yale University
    • Respondent: Nicholas Watson, University of Western Ontario

32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 8-11, 1997).

All sessions took place on Friday, May 10th.

Lollardy and Wyclif (Organizer: Jill C. Havens, Bridgewater State College; Moderator: Christina von Nolken, University of Chicago)

    • “Reson and Gabbynge: Latin and English Versions of Wyclif’s ‘Dialogus’,” Fiona Somerset, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
    • “Pecock Displayed: Representations of a Heretic and Lancastrian Propaganda,” Wendy Scase, University of Hull
    • “The Means of Access to Wyclif’s Writing,” Anne Hudson, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

Lollardy and Authority (Organizer: Jill C. Havens, Bridgewater State College; Moderator: Fiona Somerset, Lady Margaret Hall-Oxford)

    • “‘In Here Modir Langage’: The Authority of Heterodox literacy,” Derrick G. Pitard, University of Rochester
    • “It Takes One to Know One: Sodomites and Lollards,” Carolyn Dinshaw, University of Cafornornia-Berkeley
    • Respondent: Larry Scanlon, Rutgers University

Lollardy and Manuscripts (Organizer and Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Bridgewater State College)

    • “Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys library MS 2125: Evidence of a Wycliffite Document?,” Anita Lundy, University of Missouri/Kansas City
    • “‘And after all, myn Ave-Marie almost to the ende’: Lollards and the Exposition of the ‘Ave Maria,'” Matti Peikola, University of Turku
    • “An English Apocalpyse with Commentary and the Date of British library MS Harley 874: Some Implications for the Lollards,” Christina von Nolcken, University of Chicago

31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 9-12, 1996).

Sessions took place on Friday, May 11th.

The Doctored Text: Lollard Interpolations of Orthodox Texts (Organizer and Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Bridgewater State College)

    • “A Lollard Sermon in the Tradition of the Ars Moriendi.,” Jennifer Cooper, City University of New York.
    • “A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing: The Lollard Interpolation of Some Anonymous Devotional Texts,” Jill C. Havens, Bridgewater State College
    • “A Lollard Reading of the Ancrene Riwle and Readers of That Reading: Some Preminary Observations,” Christina Von Nolcken, University of Chicago

Treading a Fine line: Lollardy and Orthodoxy in Middle English Texts (Organizer: Jill C. Havens, Bridgewater State College; Moderator: Fiona Somerset, Lady Margaret Hall-University of Oxford)

    • “Lines of Descent/Dissent: Handlyng Synne and the Lollard Heresy,” Moira Fitzgibbons, Rutgers University
    • “Vocabulary as a Means of Distinguishing between Lollardy and Orthodoxy: A Case Study of ‘newe’,” Matti Peikola, University of Turku
    • “Before the Earthquake: Devotion and Dissent in Book to a Mother,” Nicolas Watson, University of Western Ontario


Papers presented at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds

International Medieval Congress 2023:

Sessions took place on Tuesday, July 4th, Wednesday, July 5th and Thursday, July 6th.

Re-Evaluating John Wycliffe in Bohemia (Organizer: Patrick Outhwaite; Moderator: Michael van Dussen, Department of English, McGill University, Québec)

    • “Wycliffe in Late Medieval Bohemia Revisited,” Martin Dekarli, Filozofická Fakulta, Univerzita Hradec Králové
    • “The Influence of Wycliffe’s Theory of Universals on Prague Masters: An Example of Stanislav of Znojmo and His Treatise De universalibus,” Jakub Šenovský, Evangelická teologická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Praha
    • “Wycliffe’s Legacy of Peace in 15th-Century Bohemia,” Martin Pjecha, Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie věd České republiky, Praha
    • “Stanislav of Znojmo’s Treatises on Wycliffe’s Summa de Ente,” Stephen Lahey, Department of Classics & Religious Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Wycliffite Entanglements: Texts, Visions, and Revisions (Organizer: Cosima Clara Gillhammer; Moderator: Michael van Dussen, Department of English, McGill University, Québec)

    • “Revisiting Evidence for John Trevisa’s Authorship of the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible,” Elizabeth Solopova, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford
    • “Translation, Interpretation, and Devotion in the Wycliffite Psalms,” Audrey Southgate, Merton College, University of Oxford
    • “Developing a Vocabulary of Interpretation: The Wycliffite Glossed Gospel on Mark,” Cosima Clara Gillhammer, Christ Church College, University of Oxford

The Muddying of Factional Demarcations in Late Medieval English Religious Discourses (Organizer: Ian R. Johnson; Moderator: Michael van Dussen, Department of English, McGill University, Québec)

    • “”‘Commyning togider’: Shared Modes of Religious Conversation in 15th-Century England and Their Implications for the Orthodox-Heterodox Dichotomy,” Rob Lutton, Department of History, University of Nottingham
    • “The Lemmatic Orthodox Community in between and amongst Fragmentary Interpretations in the Middle English Wycliffite Glossed Gospels,” Ian R. Johnson, School of English, University of St Andrews
    • “‘Quere’: Textual Auditors in and around the Common Profit Tradition,” Ryan Perry, School of English, University of Kent

International Medieval Congress 2022:

Sessions took place on Tuesday, July 5th.

Political Activism and the Later Wycliffites (Organizer: Michael Van Dussen; Moderator: Michael P. Kuczynski, Department of English, Tulane University, Louisiana)

    • “Lollard Activism in Mid 15th-Century England,” Maureen Jurkowski, Department of History, University College London
    • “Criticism of the Hussite Crusades: Pragmatic and Pacifist Approaches,” Pavel Soukup, Centrum Medievistických Studií, Filosofický ústav, Akademie věd České republiky, Prague
    • “Later Lollard Pacifism,” Michael van Dussen, Department of English, McGill University, Québec

Nicholas of Lyra in the Age of Wyclif and Hus: New Perspectives on the Commentaries (Organizer: Michael Van Dussen; Moderator: David Lavinsky, Department of English, Yeshiva University, New York)

    • “Nicholas of Lyra’s Failed Project?: The Fate of His Treatise for Students On the Differences between Our Translation and the Hebrew Letter,” Deeana Copeland Klepper, Department of Religion / Department of History, Boston University
    • “The Influence of Nicholas of Lyra on the First Czech Bible Translation,” Hana Kreisingerová and Markéta Pytlíková, Ústav pro jazyk český, Akademie věd České republiky, Prague
    • “Franciscan Hebraism and the Wycliffite Bible,” Michael P. Kuczynski, Department of English, Tulane University, Louisiana

International Medieval Congress 2015:

Sessions took place on Tuesday, July 7th.

Wycliffe, Hus, and the Impact of Reform, I: The Puzzle of Transmission (Co-hosted with the Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie vĕd České Republiky, Prague / Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Vienna; Organizer: Petra Mutlová, Department of Classical Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno; Moderator: Anne Hudson, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford)

    • “Translating Jerome: Aspects of Wycliffite Biblical Scholarship at Oxford,” Kantik Ghosh, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford
    • “Recording and Rewriting Jan Hus’s Sermons from 1410-1412,” Pavel Soukup, Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie vĕd České Republiky, Prague
    • “Reception, Translation, and Manipulation: Latin Rewriting of Hussite Texts in 15th-Century Bohemia,” Jan Odstrčilík, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna

Wycliffe, Hus, and the Impact of Reform, II: The Pitfalls of Learned Debate (Co-hosted with the Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie vĕd České Republiky, Prague / Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Vienna; Organizer: Pavel Soukup, Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie vĕd České Republiky, Prague; Moderator: Alexander Russell, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick)

    • “Wycliffe Arrives at Charles University: Stanislaus of Znojmo and Wycliffe’s Metaphysics,” Stephen Lahey, Department of Classics & Religious Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    • “Wycliffe, Hus, and Prague University: Wycliffe’s 45 Articles in Bohemia,” Dušan Coufal, Department of Classical Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
    • “False Peace at Constance: A Bohemian Retrospect,” Fiona Somerset, Department of English, University of Connecticut

Wycliffe, Hus, and the Impact of Reform, III: The Struggle for Simple Minds? (Co-hosted with the Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie vĕd České Republiky, Prague / Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Vienna; Organizer: Pavlína Rychterová, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna; Moderator: Rob Lutton, Department of History, University of Nottingham)

    • “Collective Decision-Making and Its Critics: Probable Judgements and the Anti-Heresy Campaign in 15th-Century England,” Alexander Russell, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick
    • “‘Honoured through imitation, not veneration’: Cult Practices and Disciplination in the Utraquist Towns,” Kateřina Horníčková, Institute of Aesthetics & Art History, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice
    • “Describing Reform, Describing Heretics: Prophetic Language between the Hussites and the Catholics,” Pavlína Libichová Cermanová, Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie vĕd České Republiky, Prague

Wycliffe, Hus, and the Impact of Reform, IV: Battle of Words – Battle of Swords (Co-hosted with the Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie vĕd České Republiky, Prague / Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Vienna; Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Department of English, University of Connecticut; Moderator: Pavlína Rychterová, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna)

    • “Nobility and Religion in Hussite Bohemia,” Robert Novotný, Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie vĕd České Republiky, Prague
    • “Sir Richard la Zouche: Another Lollard Knight?,” Maureen Jurkowski, Department of History, University College London
    • “The Taming of the Warrior?: Concepts of Violence in the Life of Bohemian Nobility in the 15th Century,” Zdeněk Beran, Institute of History, University of Hradec Králové

Wycliffe, Hus, and the Impact of Reform, V: Editing Wycliffe and Hus – A Round Table Discussion (Co-Hosted with the Department of Classical Studies, Masaryk University, Brno; Organizer and Moderator: Petra Mutlová, Department of Classical Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno)

    • Anne Hudson, University of Oxford
    • Stephen Lahey, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    • Pavlina Rychterová, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna
    • Elizabeth Solopova, University of Oxford
    • Fiona Somerset, University of Connecticut

International Medieval Congress 2012:

Sessions took place on Monday, July 9th, and Wednesday, July 11th, respectively.

Wycliffites, Sacraments, and Sacramentals (Organizer: Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford; Moderator: Johan Bergström-Allen, Carmelite Institute of Britain & Ireland, Dublin / Université de Lausanne / Saint Albert’s Press)

    • “Vain, Void, and Superfluous?: Lollard Views on the Sacraments of Initiation,” J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Department of Theology, Fordham University
    • “An Orthodox Theology of Sacramentals in the 15th Century,” Kevin Alban, Curia Generalizia dei Carmelitani, Roma
    • “Hoccleve’s ‘open shrifte’ and Its Implications,” Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford

Versified Theology in the Late Middle Ages (Organizer and Moderator: Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford)

    • “The Form of the Form of Living: Versification and Didacticism in Middle English,” Katherine Zieman, Exeter College, University of Oxford
    • “‘Keep Well Christ’s Commandments’: Manuscript Evidence for the Significance of Versification in the Vernacular Versions of the Decalogue, c. 1350-1500,” Elisabeth Salter, Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University
    • “Biblical Latin Versifications in the 15th-Century Miscellanies,” Lucie Doležalová, Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Humanities

International Medieval Congress 2009:

Sessions took place on Tuesday, July 14th, and Wednesday, July 15th, respectively.

John Wycliffe and the Intellectual History of Late Medieval England (Co-hosted with the Oxford Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Oxford; Organizers: Rory Cox, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford and Ian Forrest, Oriel College, University of Oxford; Moderator: Ian Forrest)

    • “A Political Heretic?: Elements of Anarchism in John Wycliffe’s Thought,” Rory Cox, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford
    • “John Wycliffe and the Illogicality of Heresies,” Frédéric Goubier, Philosophisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    • “Vernacular Philosophy and the Legacy of John Wycliffe,” Kantik Ghosh, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford

Three Phases of the Wycliffite Controversies (Co-hosted with the Oxford Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Oxford; Organizer: Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford; Moderator: Kantik Ghosh, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford)

    • “Who Was Walter Brut?,” Maureen Jurkowski, Department of History, University College London
    • “Heresy and Conciliarist Theory in England,” Alexander Russell, Jesus College, University of Oxford
    • “John Bury vs. Reginald Pecock Revisited,” Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford

International Medieval Congress 2007:

Session took place on Tuesday, July 10th.

Celebrating 800 Years of the Carmelites, IV: The Identity of Orthodoxy, Carmelites, and Dissent (Co-hosted with the British Province of Carmelites / Institutum Carmelitanum; Organizer: Johan Bergström-Allen, Carmelite Institute of Britain & Ireland, York / Université de Lausanne; Moderator: Jens Röhrkasten, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham)

    • “Monks, Mendicants, or Hermits: Who Were the Medieval Carmelites?,” Markus Schürer, Abteilung Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Institut für Geschichte, Technische Universität, Dresden
    • “Fighting Lollardy with the Rule of St Albert,” Kevin Alban, Curia Generalizia dei Carmelitani, Roma
    • “Under Pressure: Risking Existence, Establishing Identity,” Paul Chandler, Institutum Carmelitanum, Roma / Melbourne College of Divinity

International Medieval Congress 2006:

Sessions took place on Monday, July 10th, and Wednesday, July 12th, respectively.

Lollards and Emotions (Organizer: Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford)

    • “A Battle of Souls: Hyperbole and Invective in the ‘General Prologue’ to the Wycliffite Bible,” Anne Karin Ro, Department of English, Agder University College, Kristiansand
    • “A Lollard Climate of Feeling?: Reading and Emotion in a Middle English Bible Summary,” Fiona Somerset, Department of English, Duke University, North Carolina
    • “Lollardy and Affect: The Orthodox Perspective,” Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford

Affective Piety and the Use of the Vernacular in the 15th Century (Co-sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society; Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Department of English, Duke University, North Carolina)

    • “Performance Poetics in the N-Town ‘Assumption of Mary’,” Seeta Chaganti, Department of English, University of California, Davis
    • “Affective Piety in Westminster School MS 3,” Amanda Moss, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London
    • “Making Yourself ‘þer present’: Nicholas Love and the Plays of the Passion,” Alexandra F. Johnston, Records of Early English Drama, University of Toronto

International Medieval Congress 2005:

Session took place on Monday, July 17.

Did “Censorship” Lead to “Cultural Change”? Reassessing Arundel’s Provincial “Constitutions” (1407-9) (Organizer and Moderator: Mishtooni C.A. Bose, Christ Church, University of Oxford)

    • “Muddying the Mainstream: Middle English Religious Texts after Arundel,” Ian Johnson, School of English, University of St Andrews
    • “The Towneley Cycle: Dramatic Displacement of the Eucharist,” Sarah James, Newnham College, University of Cambridge
    • “The Trouble with Lollardy,” Mishtooni Bose

International Medieval Congress 2004:

Session took place on Monday, July 12th.

Heresy and Authority: Whose Agenda? (Organizer and Moderator: Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Centre for Antiquity & the Middle Ages, University of Southampton)

    • “How Easy Was it to Identify Heretics?” Ian Forrest, All Souls College, University of Oxford
    • “Were the Lollards Heretics?” Ian Levy, Lexington Theological Seminary, Kentucky
    • “Netter and Lollardy: Whose Agenda?” Kevin Alban, Insitutum Carmelitanum, Roma

International Medieval Congress 2003:

Sessions took place on Wednesday, July 16th.

Lollardy and Repression (Organizer and Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Department of English, Baylor University, Texas)

    • “Latitude Repression and Orthodox Textuality” Ian Johnson, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
    • “Capgrave’s Lollards: Power and Persecution” Karen A. Winstead, Ohio State University
    • “Lollard Conventicles and the Discourse of Power” Penn Szittya, Georgetown University

What Makes a Heresy? (Organizer and Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Department of English, Baylor University, Texas)

    • “Forcing the Heretic out of the Tradition” Ian Levy, Lexington Theological Seminary
    • “False Piety and Incredible Subtlety: What Makes a (Mystical) Heresy?” Wendy Love Anderson, St. Louis University
    • Respondent: John Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London

International Medieval Congress 2001:

Sessions took place on Wednesday, July 11th.

Responses to Heresy (Organizer and Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, Texas)

    • “Scripture as ‘Speculum’: Wyclif’s Exposure of Heresy,” Ian Levy, Marquette University
    • “Latin and Vernacular Responses to Lollardy: Netter and Pecock,” Mishtooni Bose, University of Southampton
    • “The Production of Heresy: Lollardy and Inquisitorial Discourse,” John Arnold, University of East Anglia

Beyond the Binary: Images and the Relationship Between Heresy and Orthodoxy (Organizer: Jill C. Havens, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, Texas;
Moderator: Wendy Scase, Department of English, University of Birmingham)

    • “Beyond the Binary: The Evidence of Art in Norfolk,” Ann Eljenholm Nichols, Winona State University
    • “Between Orthodoxy and Heresy: Ambiguous Moments in Lydgate’s Troy Book,” Emily Leverett, Ohio State University

International Medieval Congress 2000:

Sessions took place on Wednesday, July 12th, and Thursday, July 13th, respectively.

Heresy and Lay Preaching (Organizer: Jill C. Havens, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; Moderator: Simon Forde, Brepols Publishers, Saltaire)

    • “Re-Examining Margery Kempe’s Preaching Ministry (1413-1438),” Genelle Gertz-Robinson, Princeton University
    • “‘My lordys lettyr and seel’: Documentary Authority and Lay Preaching in the Early 15th Century,” Emily Steiner, University of Pennsylvania
    • Respondent: Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham

Wycliffite Hermeneutics (Organizer and Moderator: Jill C. Havens, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, Texas)

    • “Lollard Linguistics: Why Lollards are Not Supposed to Swear,” Melissa Mohr, Stanford University
    • “Lollardy and Hermeneutic Freedom,” Kantik Ghosh, Lincoln College, Oxford
    • “A Question of Diplomacy? The ‘Legend’ of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Lollards,” Gila Aloni, Columbia University

International Medieval Congress 1999:

Session took place on Thursday, July 15th.

Lollardy and other Heterodoxies (Organizer: Jill C. Havens, Department of English, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; Moderator: Simon Forde, Brepols Publishers, Saltaire)

    • “Are All Lollards Lollards?” Andrew E. Larsen, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    • “Clergy in the Diocese of Prague on the Eve of Hussite Revolution,” Eva Dolezalova, Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
    • “English Biblical Texts before Lollardy and their Fate,” Ralph Hanna III, Keble College, Oxford