We are sponsoring two session at Leeds this summer, both of which have a link to explain their contents: Session 818, “John Wycliffe and the Intellectual History of Late Medieval England,” will be held at 4:30 on July 14th. Session 1321, “Three Phases of the Wycliffite Controversies,” will be at the same time on the 15th. If you …
I can’t resist creating an entry on this. In the process of compiling bibliography on Wyclif and his followers I’ve come across many fictional treatments of Wyclif and Wycliffites. I’ve now listed those I know of on their own page on this site. You can find them in hard copies on eBay and Amazon and …
The call for papers for Siena, to take place in July of 2010, has been posted. Several under the category of “Religious Practice, Institutions, and Theology” directly address religious culture. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2009.
Texts and Contexts: A Manuscript Conference at Ohio State University, sponsored by The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies. The conference seeks to investigate the textual traditions of various texts and genres, including texts in classical Latin, mediaeval Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and the vernaculars. Preference will be given to those abstracts which deal with …
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This is a conference sponsored by the Early English Text Society. It will be held in Oxford 20-22 May, 2010. Please send 300 word abstracts by 21 May 2009–that’s next week. To submit an abstract, and for more information, visit the conference webpage.
The Call for Papers for the Medieval Academy in 2010 (to be in New Haven, CT) is now out. The deadline for submissions is 15 May 2009 (that’s today!). Also see their Facebook page for more information.
This site has recently (early May) been moved to a new server. Everything should be updated now: Bibliographies, texts attached to them, and posts on “recent publications.” The advantage to the new server is that there is much more space now to hold the growing library of .pdf files attached to the Bibliographies. Please send …
Collectively these studies represent several very new angles of research, especially on Walter Brut and medieval sexuality, which make our understanding of medieval views of women and medieval sexuality much more complex: at times, perhaps, repression was greater than we might imagine (as per Somerset, Lochrie, and Hornbeck, below), while in some arenas women were …
Over the past five years no fewer than five new full-length books and two collections of essays have been published on John Wyclif himself, not his followers. (I keep having to revise this post after finding more!) Note that I have not seen all of these volumes (yet), so some comments here are from dust …
According to a recent story in The New York Times, the Catholic church has brought back the practice of giving out indulgences. Indulgences remit some or all of the penance required by sin (they do not give forgiveness for the guilt of sin itself, which can only be accomplished though confession and absolution). Indulgences, or …