Recent Publications: Primary Sources

Updated post! Please get in touch with if you know of anything else that should be added. These have been added to the Bibliography of Primary Sources. Dove, Mary, ed. The Earliest Advocates of the English Bible: The Texts of the Medieval Debate. Exeter: Univ. of Exeter Press, 2010. [New editions of the texts from …

What’s a Good Introduction to Wycliffism?

This question comes up quite a bit on line and in e-mails. This post gives some options for different audiences. In talking to colleagues about possibilities, several noted that new publications specifically to introduce the movement are on the way. New work will be noted here as it comes out. 1. About Wyclif. The most …

CFP: Early Book Society, July 2013

The thirteenth biennial EBS conference will be held at St. Andrews University, Scotland, from 4-7 July 2013. The theme for the conference is “Networks of Influence: Readers, Owners, and Makers of MSS and Printed Books, 1350-1550.” According to the CFP, “networks” could allude to an affinity, friendships, communities, secular or religious or both, for example, …

CFP: Kalamazoo 2013

Here are sessions proposed for May 2013; the Congress will be held on 9-13 May. 1. Last Things Papers in this session will consider the ways in which fifteenth-century Europeans addressed the death of the individual and its perils and promises; mass deaths or killings associated with plague, famine, or war; or fears, hopes or …

New Essay Collection: Wycliffite Controversies

Brepols has published new collection of essays, edited by J. Patrick Hornbeck and Mishtooni Bose, that includes a wide range of work. According to the publisher the volume considers “in interdisciplinary fashion the historical, literary, and theological resonances of the Wycliffite controversies. Far from adhering to the traditional binary divide between ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘heresy’ as …

New Publication: van Dussen, From England to Bohemia

Michael van Dussen has a new volume forthcoming (already out in the UK) entitled England to Bohemia: Heresy and Communication in the Later Middle Ages, as part of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature series. It promises to open up new ground on Wycliffism and communication with Bohemia. According to the book’s jacket description, “This …

Kalamazoo 2012

The schedule for Kalamazoo 2012 is now on line. Sessions this year will take place on Thursday, May 10, in the afternoon and evening. Session 66: Influence or Interchange? Vernacular and Scholarly Cultures (Organizer: Fiona Somerset, Duke Univ.; Presider: J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Fordham Univ.) “Unlocking the Barn Door: Vernacular Doctrine and Its Audience in …

Job Announcement

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) announces a cluster hire in digital humanities: over the next three years the university intends to hire six tenure-line faculty members across a number of departments (and additional staff) to further propel this signature program. In the first phase of this effort, we seek promising candidates for tenure-track appointments at …