At the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo (May 9–11, 2024), the Lollard Society will be sponsoring three panels in honor of Alastair J. Minnis. A recent Festschrift for Alastair Minnis focuses on his contributions to the history of literary theory and criticism; these sessions celebrate his importance to three other fields: Gower …
At the IMC in Leeds this year, the Lollard Society will be sponsoring three panels. IMC 2023 PDF Programme : International Medieval Congress (leeds.ac.uk) Re-Evaluating John Wycliffe in Bohemia Tuesday 4 July 2023: 14.15-15.45 Session 703 Scholars have long linked John Wycliffe’s ideas with masters of the University of Prague and the Hussite movement. For …
In celebration of the launch of Pepperdine University Professor Jennifer A. T. Smith’s latest book, The Book of Faith: A modern English Translation (UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020), which offers a critical introduction to, and translation of, Reginald Pecock’s The Book of Faith. The event is organized by Arvind Thomas (UCLA), moderated …
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At the IMC in Leeds this year, the Lollard Society will be sponsoring two panels along with the Centrum Medievistických Studií, Praha. IMC 2022 Programme : International Medieval Congress (leeds.ac.uk) Political Activism and the Later Wycliffites Tuesday 5 July 2022: 14.15-15.45 Session 739 Wycliffites in mid 15th-century England are thought to have increasingly withdrawn from …
The Lollard Society invites proposals for the two sessions it will co-sponsor at the 2020 International Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo, MI. Abstracts should be sent to Michael Van Dussen at michael[dot]vandussen[at]mcgill[dot]ca no later than Sept. 15 “Centers, Peripheries, and Networks of Reform in the Fifteenth Century” [co-sponsored with the Jean Gerson Society] This session analyzes …
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The 2017 volume of the Yearbook of Langland Studies examines how lollards employ textual form as an instrument of spiritual formation. The collection includes the following contributions: Introduction: Textual Form and Spiritual Formation, by Mary Raschko and Elizabeth Schirmer A Humble Guise: The Role of Prologues in the Wycliffite Glossed Gospels, by Mary Raschko Forming Devotion in a …
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If you’re headed to the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo this May, be sure to check out the following Lollard Society sessions, one of which is co-sponsored with our friends at the International Piers Plowman Society. Social Justice in the Piers Plowman Tradition (Friday, May 11, 10am, Schneider 1235) Organizers & presiders: …
A critical edition of Wyclif’s De scientia Dei, edited by Luigi Campi, was published recently by Oxford University Press. From the publisher: “De scientia Dei (On God’s Knowledge) is one of the few major texts by John Wyclif that has not already been published. According to John A. Robson, the De scientia Dei is ‘in some way, …
The Lollard Society will sponsor the following three sessions at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 10-13, 2018): 1) Unmystical Rolle The early fourteenth-century Yorkshire hermit, Richard Rolle, has long been known as one of the premier mystical writers of the English Middle Ages. He was positioned at the beginning …
