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CFP: Kalamazoo, 2016
The Lollard Society will sponsor two sessions at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI (May 12-15, 2016): 1. What Do We Mean by Devotion? In scholarship on later medieval religiosity, the terms “devotion” and “devotional” can signal a wide range of dispositions, behaviors, teachings, and textual forms: just what do we…
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CFP: Wyclif and the Realist Tradition
A two-day workshop on ‘Wyclif and the Realist Tradition in 14th-Century Logic’ will be held at the University of St. Andrews on 16-17 May 2015. Proposals should be submitted by 12 January. Historians of logic have known for decades that the 14th century was a tremendously productive period in the Latin West. As far as…
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Two New Monographs
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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Recent Publications: Secondary Sources
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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Call For Papers: Leeds, 2015
Wyclif, Hus, and the Impact of Reform Series of sessions for the IMC, Leeds, 6-9 July 2015 Sponsors: Lollard Society, CMS Prague, OEAW Vienna Organisers: Mishtooni Bose, Michael Van Dussen, Pavlína Rychterová, Pavel Soukup The general theme of the 2015 International Medieval Congress in Leeds is “Reform and Renewal”, and we believe that this theme…
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Call For Papers: Kalamazoo, 2015
The Lollard Society hopes to sponsor two sessions at the 50th Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (to be held 14-17 May 2015): 1. Another Kind of Saint: Wycliffite Hagiographies: A panel in honor of Christina von Nolcken In honor of her retirement in 2015, the Lollard Society would like to propose…
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Recent Publications: Secondary Sources
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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CFP: Kalamazoo, 2014
The Lollard Society is sponsoring two sessions at the 49th Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (to be held 8-11 May 2014): 1. What Is a Wycliffite Book? In recent years scholars have been expanding and complicating definitions of what constitutes heresy, orthodoxy, and heterodoxy, investigating how so-called Wycliffite practices intersect with…
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CFP: Transforming Scripture, May 2014
“Transforming Scripture: Biblical Translations and Adaptations in Old and Middle English” will be held at St. Anne’s College, Oxford on 29-31 May 2014. The drive to make scripture available in the vernacular was responsible for some of the highest artistic and scholarly achievements of the medieval period, inspiring literary and academic projects of incomparable magnitude…
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EBS Conference, St. Andrews, July 2013
The program for the EBS Conference on 4-7 July in St. Andrews has now been published; two (fascinating!) sessions will be devoted to Wycliffism. Wycliffites and Their Texts I (Chair: Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford) “Richard Rolle, the Lollards and Marginal Glosses in the Psalms of MS Longleat 3, a Wycliffite Bible in the Early…