Call for Papers: Richard FitzRalph: His Life, Times and Thought

“Richard FitzRalph: His Life, Times and Thought: a conference to commemorate the 650th anniversary of his death,” will be held at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, November 15-17, 2010. Proposals should include the author’s name and professional affiliation, the paper’s title, a brief abstract (150 words or less), and any A/V requirements. Please send …

Conference: Form and Function in the Late Medieval Bible

The Center for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh will be sponsoring a conference this summer on 12-14 July, 2010. According to the announcement, the conference “will bring together experts in medieval liturgy and sermons, art, religion and manuscripts, to examine the material culture of the Late Medieval Bible and its …

Conference Announcements

First: the Kalamazoo program is now up and available. Sessions sponsored by the Lollard Society are being held on Friday again this year; please come by! Second: the program and registration information for the New Chaucer Society conference at Siena is also now up. If you want to go, you’ll need to register and make …

Call for Papers: Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society‘s conference for 2010 will be held in London next year on 1-3 September. One session of interest to Lollard Society members will be entitled: “‘Terra incognita’? Making space for medieval geographies”: Historical geographers appear to be increasingly occupied with the modern or post-Enlightenment world, with ‘medieval geographies’ becoming, for many in …

Call for Papers: Fifth International Piers Plowman Society Conference

The Fifth International Piers Plowman Society Conference will be held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 14-17 April 2011. The Programme Committee invites proposals for papers on any topic concerned with Piers Plowman and related poetry and prose in the traditions of didactic and allegorical alliterative writing, or with the historical, religious, intellectual, codicological, and critical …

Call for Papers: Mapping Lives of Christ, Belfast, 10-13 June, 2010

This conference represents the culmination of the AHRC-funded “Geographies of Orthodoxy” project. Papers are invited on any aspect of late medieval Christological piety, with a particular emphasis on the cultural manifestations of the pseudo-Bonaventuran tradition, in all European contexts. Topics might include: The production and reception of late medieval lives of Christ Lives of Christ …

Call for Papers: Lollard Society sessions for Kalamazoo 2010

SECOND UPDATE: the full CPF for the International Medieval Congress is now out. Deadline is Sept. 15. Here are the three sessions we hope to offer: The study of late medieval religion is in an extraordinarily productive and exciting phase, and the Lollard Society’s three proposed sessions for the ICMS next year seek to reflect and …

Mary Dove

There is sad news: Mary Dove, who will be known to scholars of Wycliffite studies as the author of The First English Bible: The Text and Context of the Wycliffite Versions (2007), among much other work, died on June 5 of this year. She was 65. I did not know her well enough, though I …

Chaucer and Loll . . . Wycliffism

Two recent essays on Chaucer’s possible use of the Wycliffite Bible. Amanda Holton, in “Which Bible did Chaucer Use?: The Biblical Tragedies in the Monk’s Tale”, argues that Chaucer did not, at least for the Monk’s Tale, in part because current accepted dates for the completion of the Bible and the Tale mean that it …

Website updates

A new webpage, the Glossa Ordinaria, has been added as a sub-page to the Bibliography of Primary Sources. This contains .pdfs of a full copy of the Glossa, an edition printed in Venice in 1603. The advantage that this has over the version in the Patrologia Latina is that this has prologues by Hieronymous and …