LOLLARD AFFILIATIONS

Conference Sponsored by the Lollard Society, Oriel College, Oxford

This is a provisional list of the papers to be offered. Please contact the conference organizer, Mishtooni Bose, with further questions. Here is the conference registration form.

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:
    • Helen Barr, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: title to be confirmed [on the appropriation of Wycliffite tropes in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 102]
    • Amanda Moss, Royal Holloway, London: "Dissenting Views: the fine line between orthodoxy and lollardy in a fifteenth-century devotional anth ology" (on MS Westminster 3)
    • Matti Peikola, University of Turku, Finland: "Wycliffite Tables of Lessons and their Orthodox Appropriation"

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:
    • Maureen Jurkowski, University College, London (title to be confirmed: on Lollardy and social history)
    • Rob Lutton, University of Nottingham (title to be confirmed: on Lollardy and social/cultural/devotional history)
    • Ryan Perry and Allan Westphall: "Geographies of Orthodoxy: developments in current research"
  • 2:00 PM, Session 5:
    • Edwin Craun, Washington and Lee University: "Discarding Traditional Pastoral Ethics: Wycliffism and Slander"
    • Fiona Somerset, Duke University (title to be confirmed: on Lollard spirituality)
  • 3:00 PM, Session 6:
    • Mary Dove, University of Sussex (title to be confirmed: on Lollard attitudes towards biblical translation)
    • Mary Raschko, University of North Carolina: "Open Interpretation: Vernacular commentary on the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard"
    • Robyn Malo, Austin College, Sherman, Texas: "'Roten bones' and 'Ydolatry': Lollard Responses to Relics and Images"
  • 5.00 PM, Plenary lecture, questions and answers
    • Alastair Minnis, Yale University

Sunday, July 13th

  • 9:30 AM, Session 7:
    • Thomas Betteridge, Oxford Brookes University: "Thomas More and Lollardy"
    • Stephen E. Lahey, University of Nebraska–Lincoln: "The Reformation Career of Wyclif’s Trialogus"
    • Thomas S. Freeman: "The Carmelite Legacy and the Lollards in the Reformation: John Bale, John Foe, and the Fasciculi Zizaniorum"
  • 11:30 PM Plenary lecture, questions and answers
    • Peter Marshall, University of Warwick
  • 1:00 PM Concluding Remarks
    • Mishtooni Bose, Christ Church, Oxford