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: Elizaveta Strakhov, Marquette Univ.; Michael Calabrese, California State Univ.–Los Angeles
“Piers Plowman’s Limbs,” Micah Goodrich, Univ. of Connecticut
“Natural Justice and ‘Kinde Konninge’ in Alexander and Dindimus,” Thomas Hahn, Univ. of Rochester
“‘Leten I nelle that eche man shal have his’: Confession as Social Justice in Piers Plowman,” Amanda Leary, Purdue Univ.
“No Pretensions, No Presumptions: Piers Plowman and the Path to Agency,” Marjorie F. Smith, Pasadena City College
Constructing the Wycliffite Bible (Friday, May 11, 1:30pm, Schneider 1235)
Organizer: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Presider: Fiona Somerset, Univ. of Connecticut
“Toward a New Edition of the Wycliffite Bible,” Elizabeth Solopova, Univ. of Oxford
“Literacy and the Constructed Artifact,” David Lavinsky, Yeshiva Univ.
“Bodleian Library, Oxford MS Bodl.554 and William Thorpe’s Psalter,” Michael Kuczynski, Tulane Univ.
Unmystical Rolle (Saturday May 12, 10am, Schneider 1135)
Organizers: Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.; Andrew Kraebel, Trinity Univ.
Presider: Steven Rozenski, Univ. of Rochester
“Demystifying Heavenly Song: “Canor” and the Devotional Text,” Timothy Glover, Univ. of Oxford
“Strong Women and Scribal Authors,” Andrew Kraebel, Trinity Univ.
“The Hussite Context of Rolle’s Latin Psalter,” Petra Mutlová, Masaryk Univ.; Michael Van Dussen, McGill Univ.