Derrick Pitard – The Lollard Society

CFP: Fourth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University

by Derrick PitardCalls for Papers September 24, 2015September 28, 2019Comments are Disabled

The Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies provides a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars in all disciplines to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern worlds. We invite proposals …

CFP: Wyclif and the Realist Tradition

by Derrick PitardCalls for Papers January 8, 2015September 28, 2019Comments are Disabled

A two-day workshop on ‘Wyclif and the Realist Tradition in 14th-Century Logic’ will be held at the University of St. Andrews on 16-17 May 2015. Proposals should be submitted by 12 January. Historians of logic have known for decades that the 14th century was a tremendously productive period in the Latin West. As far as …

Call For Papers: Kalamazoo, 2015

by Derrick PitardCalls for Papers July 5, 2014September 28, 2019Comments are Disabled

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 …

CFP: Kalamazoo, 2014

by Derrick PitardConferences July 20, 2013September 15, 2013Comments are Disabled

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

by Derrick PitardCalls for Papers July 10, 2013Comments are Disabled

“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

by Derrick PitardConferences May 20, 2013May 22, 2013Comments are Disabled

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

by Derrick PitardAnnouncements, Conferences April 9, 2013April 9, 2013Comments are Disabled

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

by Derrick PitardRecent Publications February 8, 2013February 8, 2013Comments are Disabled

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

by Derrick PitardCalls for Papers, Conferences February 8, 2013February 8, 2013Comments are Disabled

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 …

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Recent Publications: Primary Sources

by Derrick PitardRecent Publications, Website Updates September 1, 2012September 2, 2012Comments are Disabled

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 …