Recent Publications: Secondary Sources

This installment features essays from After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England, edited by Vincent Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh, as well as other recently published articles and book chapters. Please contact Mary Raschko regarding any changes that should be made to the material below or to request inclusion of a secondary source in the next update. …

Call For Papers: Leeds, 2015

Wyclif, Hus, and the Impact of Reform Series of sessions for the IMC, Leeds, 6-9 July 2015 Sponsors: Lollard Society, CMS Prague, OEAW Vienna Organisers: Mishtooni Bose, Michael Van Dussen, Pavlína Rychterová, Pavel Soukup The general theme of the 2015 International Medieval Congress in Leeds is “Reform and Renewal”, and we believe that this theme …

Call For Papers: Kalamazoo, 2015

The Lollard Society hopes to sponsor two sessions at the 50th Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (to be held 14-17 May 2015): 1. Another Kind of Saint: Wycliffite Hagiographies: A panel in honor of Christina von Nolcken In honor of her retirement in 2015, the Lollard Society would like to propose …

Recent Publications: Secondary Sources

This list features some recent secondary sources and especially focuses on the essays published in the recent volume edited by Mishtooni Bose and J. Patrick Hornbeck: Wycliffite Controversies.  Please contact Mary Raschko with any changes to the material below or with any items you would like to ensure I include in the next update. Barr, …

CFP: Kalamazoo, 2014

The Lollard Society is sponsoring two sessions at the 49th Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (to be held 8-11 May 2014): 1. What Is a Wycliffite Book? In recent years scholars have been expanding and complicating definitions of what constitutes heresy, orthodoxy, and heterodoxy, investigating how so-called Wycliffite practices intersect with …

CFP: Transforming Scripture, May 2014

“Transforming Scripture: Biblical Translations and Adaptations in Old and Middle English” will be held at St. Anne’s College, Oxford on 29-31 May 2014. The drive to make scripture available in the vernacular was responsible for some of the highest artistic and scholarly achievements of the medieval period, inspiring literary and academic projects of incomparable magnitude …

EBS Conference, St. Andrews, July 2013

The program for the EBS Conference on 4-7 July in St. Andrews has now been published; two (fascinating!) sessions will be devoted to Wycliffism. Wycliffites and Their Texts I (Chair: Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford) “Richard Rolle, the Lollards and Marginal Glosses in the Psalms of MS Longleat 3, a Wycliffite Bible in the Early …

Kalamazoo 2013

We are offering two sessions at Kalamazoo this May. The first will be on Friday afternoon at 3:30 in Valley I; the second will be on Saturday morning in Schneider. We look forward to seeing you there! 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (May 9-12, 2013). Session 303: Last Things (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Univ. …

Recent Publications: Two New Primary Sources

This post is an appendix to two earlier posts: Recent Publications of Primary Sources, and also What’s a Good Introduction to Wycliffism?. Both of these provide new avenues to enter into the study of Wyclif and Wycliffite writings for a wide range of audiences. The first is Stephen Lahey’s translation, published by Cambridge, of Wyclif’s …

CFP: Europe After Wyclif

From June 4-6, 2014, Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies, in association with the Lollard Society and our partners at McGill University in Montreal, will be hosting a three-day conference entitled “Europe after Wyclif.” The aim of the conference is to broaden in both chronological and geographical terms the scope of the study of religious controversy …