{"id":196,"date":"2009-07-30T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-07-31T09:20:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T14:20:38","slug":"call-for-papers-lollard-society-sessions-for-kalamazoo-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lollardsociety.org\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: Lollard Society sessions for Kalamazoo 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

SECOND UPDATE: the full CPF for the International Medieval Congress<\/a> is now out. Deadline is Sept. 15. Here are the three sessions we hope to offer:<\/p>\n

The study of late medieval religion is in an extraordinarily productive\u00a0and exciting phase, and the Lollard Society’s three proposed sessions for the ICMS next year seek to reflect and capitalize on that fact, with\u00a0topics that aim to facilitate new conversations across the boundaries of specific disciplines and fields.<\/p>\n

Session I, Shifting Paradigms<\/strong>, addresses two areas in late medieval\u00a0religious study where recent conversations seem to render everything open to question. The first is terminology: there is a growing\u00a0conviction that terms such as ‘heresy’ vs ‘orthodoxy’, or even ‘Wycliffite’, ‘lollard’, ‘spirituality’, ‘pastoralia’, or ‘mysticism’,\u00a0are in one way or another inadequate to the tasks they are asked to perform. We are trying to describe and analyse religious groups, and\u00a0bodies of religious writing, in new ways. The second is chronology: we have had the Dull Fifteenth Century, and the Draconian Fifteenth Century\u00a0of Repression, but neither of those familiar narratives seems to tell the story we find in manuscripts: instead, any number of alternative\u00a0chronologies are now being proposed. This session invites papers that consider any of these topics.<\/p>\n

Session II, English and International<\/strong>, addresses a growing conviction\u00a0that England cannot be adequately examined in isolation, whether or not\u00a0the contention of many past scholars that England was somehow different\u00a0from the rest of Europe is well founded. Papers on continental influences on lollardy, lollardy’s influences on the continent, or the\u00a0ambit of any groups in late medieval England associated with religion and international travel or interchange (friars, bishops, university\u00a0scholars, pilgrims) are invited. So are papers that elaborate illuminating analogies, parallels, or contrasts with reforming movements\u00a0on the continent that may or may not have had any direct contact with lollardy.<\/p>\n

Session III, Fifteenth-Century Books<\/strong>, seeks to promote work on\u00a0individual manuscripts or groups of manuscripts, as well as trial records that discuss books and reading, that addresses questions such as\u00a0these: who read lollard writings? what did lollards read? what kinds of book production did lollards engage in, and where? can we characterize\u00a0Wycliffite Christianity in terms other than anticlericalism? how can we characterize the relationships between what we might call ‘lollard book\u00a0production’ and the production of other sorts of religious books in which lollard writings may be included? were there changes across the\u00a0fifteenth century in types of book production, patterns and methods of recopying, modes of reading, and textual intervention in existing\u00a0manuscripts (e.g. erasure, excision, interpolation, marginal annotation)? what happens with the shift to print? can we speak of\u00a0censorship before or after the advent of print, and if so, in the same ways?<\/p>\n

If you have any questions, or to submit a proposal, please send along a note to Fiona Somerset (somerset AT duke DOT edu).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0and exciting phase, and the Lollard Society’s three proposed sessions for the ICMS next year seek to reflect and … <\/p>\n

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