{"id":27101,"date":"2026-10-28T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?page_id=27101"},"modified":"2026-10-28T11:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:44:06","slug":"news-and-announcements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?page_id=27101","title":{"rendered":"News and Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Browse by Category<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-categories-list wp-block-categories-taxonomy-category wp-block-categories\">\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?cat=9\">Announcements<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-11\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?cat=11\">Calls for Papers<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?cat=8\">Conferences<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-13\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?cat=13\">Other News<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?cat=7\">Recent Publications<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-12\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?cat=12\">Website Updates<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-27037 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-conferences tag-conferences tag-europe tag-hus tag-manuscripts tag-peter-payne tag-wyclif tag-wycliffism\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=27037\" target=\"_self\" >Peter Payne: A Forgotten Great European<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2026-10-27T11:29:03-04:00\">October 27, 2026<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">On 30 September \u2013 1 October 2026, members of the Lollard Society participated in the conference Peter Payne: A Forgotten Great European at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. co-organised by Elizabeth Solopova, Henrike L\u00e4hnemann, Hannah Sch\u00fchle-Lewis and James Howarth. Focussing on an outstanding individual, the workshop explored connectedness in European cultural development and the emergence, as&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-26927 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-calls-for-papers category-conferences tag-call-for-papers tag-conferences tag-sermons tag-wycliffism\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=26927\" target=\"_self\" >International Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-10-02T02:38:46-04:00\">October 2, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">25th International Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium \u201cCollecting, transmitting, and (re)using sermons\u201d Nijmegen, 1-5 July 2026 Hosted by Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) Organising committee: Shari Boodts, Pietro Delcorno, Patricia Stoop, Patrick Outhwaite Sermons have a life beyond the moment of their creation and performance. Over the course of the Middle Ages, sermons were rewritten, recycled, translated,&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-26924 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-calls-for-papers category-conferences tag-bohemia tag-brrp tag-centrum-medievistickych-studii tag-conferences tag-hussitism tag-wycliffism\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=26924\" target=\"_self\" >Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice Symposium 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-10-02T02:34:36-04:00\">October 2, 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">We are pleased to invite proposals for papers for the XV International Symposium on the Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, to be held in&nbsp;Prague on 18\u201319 June 2026, on the theme: \u201cThe Long Bohemian Reformation, European Universities, and Scholarly Disputations.\u201d The symposium will examine the intersections between the Long Bohemian Reformation and European academic life,&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-26870 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-conferences\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=26870\" target=\"_self\" >International Congress on Medieval Studies 2024<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-02-28T03:04:28-05:00\">February 28, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">At the 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo (May 9\u201311, 2024), the Lollard Society will be sponsoring three panels in honor of Alastair J. Minnis. A recent Festschrift for Alastair Minnis focuses on his contributions to the history of literary theory and criticism; these sessions celebrate his importance to three other fields: Gower&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2318 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-conferences tag-conferences tag-hussitism tag-imc tag-leeds tag-philosophy tag-wycliffism\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=2318\" target=\"_self\" ><strong>International Medieval Conference in Leeds 2023<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-24T11:07:06-05:00\">February 24, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">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\u2019s ideas with masters of the University of Prague and the Hussite movement. For&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2309 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-announcements category-recent-publications\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=2309\" target=\"_self\" >Book Launch for J. A. T. Smith&#8217;s The Book of Faith: A Modern English Translation<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-10T12:39:45-05:00\">February 10, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">In celebration of the launch of Pepperdine University Professor Jennifer A. T. Smith&#8217;s latest book, The Book of Faith: A modern English Translation (UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020), which offers a critical introduction to, and translation of, Reginald Pecock\u2019s The Book of Faith. The event is organized by Arvind Thomas (UCLA), moderated&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2168 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-conferences tag-centrum-medievistickych-studii tag-conferences tag-imc tag-leeds tag-nicholas-of-lyra tag-panels-political-activism\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=2168\" target=\"_self\" >International Medieval Conference in Leeds 2022<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2022-02-09T09:03:03-05:00\">February 9, 2022<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">At the IMC in Leeds this year, the Lollard Society will be sponsoring two panels along with the Centrum Medievistick\u00fdch Studi\u00ed, 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&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2071 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-calls-for-papers\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=2071\" target=\"_self\" >CFP: International Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2019-07-28T16:06:39-04:00\">July 28, 2019<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The Lollard Society invites proposals for the two sessions it will co-sponsor at the 2020 International Medieval Conference in Kalamazoo, MI. Abstracts should be sent to Michael Van Dussen at michael[dot]vandussen[at]mcgill[dot]ca no later than Sept. 15 &#8220;Centers, Peripheries, and Networks of Reform in the Fifteenth Century&#8221; [co-sponsored with the Jean Gerson Society] This session analyzes&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2051 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-recent-publications\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=2051\" target=\"_self\" >Forms of Faith: Lollardy and Late Medieval Textual Culture<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2019-01-07T18:57:57-05:00\">January 7, 2019<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The 2017 volume of the\u00a0Yearbook of Langland Studies\u00a0examines how lollards employ textual form as an instrument of spiritual formation. The collection includes the following contributions: Introduction: Textual Form and Spiritual Formation, by Mary Raschko and Elizabeth Schirmer A Humble Guise: The Role of Prologues in the Wycliffite\u00a0Glossed Gospels, by Mary Raschko Forming Devotion in a&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-2015 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-announcements category-website-updates\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=2015\" target=\"_self\" >Spring Fundraiser<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2018-05-11T16:31:21-04:00\">May 11, 2018<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Dear friends of the Lollard Society, We hope you value the scholarly resources provided on this site and ask you to consider whether you can help us maintain our online presence. 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