Category: Recent Publications

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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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, …

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Summer is a great time to catch up on new work related to Wycliffites and late-medieval religion. Important books from 2016 include a collection of essays that puts Wycliffism in a pan-European context and three new volumes on the Wycliffite Bible. Europe After Wyclif Ed. by J. Patrick Hornbeck, II and Michael Van Dussen From Fordham …

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If they are not already on your shelf, be sure to check out these two exciting new books:           Kennedy, Kathleen E. The Courtly and Commercial Art of the Wycliffite Bible. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. [From the publisher: “The Courtly and Commercial Art of the Wycliffite Bible examines the illuminations of the first complete …

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This installment features essays from After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England, edited by Vincent Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh, as well as other recently published articles and book chapters. Please contact Mary Raschko regarding any changes that should be made to the material below or to request inclusion of a secondary source in the next update. …

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This list features some recent secondary sources and especially focuses on the essays published in the recent volume edited by Mishtooni Bose and J. Patrick Hornbeck: Wycliffite Controversies.  Please contact Mary Raschko with any changes to the material below or with any items you would like to ensure I include in the next update. Barr, …

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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 …

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The following is a list of over 60 recent publications. All have been added to the Bibliography of Secondary Sources. Please get in touch with with any emendations to what’s below, or if you know of anything else that should be included. This is not all new work from the past two years. Two major …

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