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Wycliffites in mid 15th-century England are thought to have increasingly withdrawn from the publicly engaged reformism of earlier decades, congregating instead in private homes to read Scripture and hear sermons. There is, however, significant evidence of Wycliffite involvement in the social and political disturbances that affected both England and Hussite Bohemia at this time, from resistance to the anti-Hussite crusades, to the Lollard uprising of 1431, and finally participation in Cade’s revolt (1453). Panelists will present research on this flourishing of religiously motivated political activism and provide context for militant and pacifist positions from the crusading polemics in Central Europe.
Moderator/Chair: Michael P. Kuczynski, Department of English, Tulane University, Louisiana
Lollard Activism in Mid 15th-Century England
Maureen Jurkowski, Department of History, University College London
Criticism of the Hussite Crusades: Pragmatic and Pacifist Approaches
Pavel Soukup, Centrum Medievistických Studií, Filosofický ústav, Akademie věd České republiky, Praha
Later Lollard Pacifism
Michael van Dussen, Department of English, McGill University, Québec
Institute for Medieval Studies – Faculty of Arts – University of Leeds
Nicholas of Lyra in the Age of Wyclif and Hus: New Perspectives on the Commentaries
Tuesday 5 July 2022: 16.30-18.00
Session 839
A Franciscan teacher fluent in Hebrew, Nicholas of Lyra (d.1349) became an important source for Christians interested in rabbinical commentary and other forms of medieval Jewish exegesis. Nicholas’s relationship to the Hebrew biblical scholarship of his Franciscan precursors shapes how we assess the historical, philological, and polemical religious contexts of later decades, when his commentaries gain prominence in Wycliffite circles. This panel will explore Nicholas’s Hebraizing tendencies in light of his Wycliffite reception while also tracking the circulation of his writings beyond their familiar cultural settings, including glosses and extracts situating Nicholas within a tradition of Central European biblical translation.
Moderator/Chair: David Lavinsky, Department of English, Yeshiva University, New York
Nicholas of Lyra’s Failed Project?: The Fate of His Treatise for Students On the Differences between Our Translation and the Hebrew Letter
Deeana Copeland Klepper, Department of Religion / Department of History, Boston University
The Influence of Nicholas of Lyra on the First Czech Bible Translation
Hana Kreisingerová, Ústav pro jazyk český, Akademie věd České republiky, Praha
Markéta Pytlíková, Ústav pro jazyk český, Akademie věd České republiky, Praha
Franciscan Hebraism and the Wycliffite Bible
Michael P. Kuczynski, Department of English, Tulane University, Louisiana
Institute for Medieval Studies – Faculty of Arts – University of Leeds