At the IMC in Leeds this year, the Lollard Society will be sponsoring three panels.
IMC 2023 PDF Programme : International Medieval Congress (leeds.ac.uk)
Re-Evaluating John Wycliffe in Bohemia
Tuesday 4 July 2023: 14.15-15.45
Session 703
Scholars have long linked John Wycliffe’s ideas with masters of the University of Prague and the Hussite movement. For over a century, critics have emphasised certain narratives of how the Oxford theologian’s works spread to Central Europe and how Bohemian masters adapted his theology and political theory. This panel presents new sources and emphases that challenge this critical consensus. Panellists will re-contextualise the origins and legacies of Wycliffe’s texts in Bohemia, analyse his influence on Prague masters such as Stanislav of Znojmo and explore the ways in which Hussites adapted his ideas of radical pacifism.
Moderator/Chair: Michael van Dussen, Department of English, McGill University, Québec
Wycliffe in Late Medieval Bohemia Revisited
Martin Dekarli, Filozofická Fakulta, Univerzita Hradec Králové
The Influence of Wycliffe’s Theory of Universals on Prague Masters: An Example of Stanislav of Znojmo and His Treatise De universalibus
Jakub Šenovský, Evangelická teologická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Praha
Wycliffe’s Legacy of Peace in 15th-Century Bohemia
Martin Pjecha, Centrum Medievistických Studií, Akademie věd České republiky, Praha
Stanislav of Znojmo’s Treatises on Wycliffe’s Summa de Ente
Stephen Lahey, Department of Classics & Religious Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Institute for Medieval Studies – Faculty of Arts – University of Leeds
Wycliffite Entanglements: Texts, Visions, and Revisions
Tuesday 4 July 2023: 16.30-18.00
Session 820
This session will bring together recent and ongoing research on Wycliffite texts in order to refine our understanding of the processes and intentions behind the Wycliffite translation project. The papers will revisit Wycliffite texts which have been the focus of much scholarly inquiry as well as presenting insights into under-explored areas of Wycliffite studies, revealing insights into the Wycliffite ‘entanglements’ which interconnect individual texts and translation projects in view of their overarching objectives.
Moderator/Chair: Michael van Dussen, Department of English, McGill University, Québec
Revisiting Evidence for John Trevisa’s Authorship of the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible
Elizabeth Solopova, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford
Translation, Interpretation, and Devotion in the Wycliffite Psalms
Audrey Southgate, Merton College, University of Oxford
Developing a Vocabulary of Interpretation: The Wycliffite Glossed Gospel on Mark
Cosima Clara Gillhammer, Christ Church College, University of Oxford
Institute for Medieval Studies – Faculty of Arts – University of Leeds
The Muddying of Factional Demarcations in Late Medieval English Religious Discourses
Thursday 6 July 2023: 14.15-15.45
Session 1746
This session investigates the variegated and productive ways in which an orthodox-heterodox dichotomy was straddled and may be brought into question for modern scholars through examples of practice spanning formally different but comparable loci in late medieval English oral and written culture. Whereas one paper interrogates the performative grounds of communal conversations about religion across the heretic-orthodox divide, another examines hermeneutic conversations muddying the same divide, as afforded by the hybridity of the Middle English Wycliffite Glossed Gospels – a vernacular biblical version which, though dissident, nevertheless draws on standard Latin biblical exegesis. A third presentation in this session explores a further comparable muddying of notions of simple lines of demarcation between lay religious factions revealed by Londoners’ practices of auditing common-profit religious books.
Moderator/Chair: Michael van Dussen, Department of English, McGill University, Québec
‘Commyning togider’: Shared Modes of Religious Conversation in 15th-Century England and Their Implications for the Orthodox-Heterodox Dichotomy
Rob Lutton, Department of History, University of Nottingham
The Lemmatic Orthodox Community in between and amongst Fragmentary Interpretations in the Middle English Wycliffite Glossed Gospels
Ian R. Johnson, School of English, University of St Andrews
‘Quere’: Textual Auditors in and around the Common Profit Tradition
Ryan Perry, School of English, University of Kent
Institute for Medieval Studies – Faculty of Arts – University of Leeds