Welcome to the Lollard Society
The Lollard Society promotes the study of John Wyclif, the Lollard movement, Jan Hus, the Hussites, and the religious, intellectual and cultural history of the later Middle Ages. It brings together scholars, teachers, students and others interested in Wycliffite and Hussite reform, their historical contexts and their wider influence.
The Society supports research and scholarship through its bibliographies and other online resources, academic conferences and sessions at major international medieval studies conferences. It also provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and the encouragement of new research and publications.
Explore Our Research Resources
The Lollard Society provides a range of resources for the study of religious reform and intellectual life in late-medieval England and Bohemia (part of the modern day Czech Republic). Our resources include bibliographies of primary and secondary sources, collections of scholarly articles and various other items relating to late-medieval spiritual and devotional texts. Visitors can explore important texts and reference materials, including the works of John Wyclif and Jan Hus and the Glossa Ordinaria, the standard biblical gloss of the Middle Ages.
Bibliographies
Glossa Ordinaria
Links and Resources
Conferences and Events
Our Society brings together scholars and students of religious, intellectual and cultural history of the later Middle Ages. Explore our conference archive to learn more about our previous meetings, research presentations, gatherings and call for papers.
News and Announcements
The latest news from the Society, including information about conferences, publications and events.
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Lollardy and Gender
Collectively these studies represent several very new angles of research, especially on Walter Brut and medieval sexuality, which make our understanding of medieval views of women and medieval sexuality much more complex: at times, perhaps, repression was greater than we might imagine (as per Somerset, Lochrie, and Hornbeck, below), while in some arenas women were…
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New Books on John Wyclif
Over the past five years no fewer than five new full-length books and two collections of essays have been published on John Wyclif himself, not his followers. (I keep having to revise this post after finding more!) Note that I have not seen all of these volumes (yet), so some comments here are from dust…
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On Indulgences
According to a recent story in The New York Times, the Catholic church has brought back the practice of giving out indulgences. Indulgences remit some or all of the penance required by sin (they do not give forgiveness for the guilt of sin itself, which can only be accomplished though confession and absolution). Indulgences, or…
About the Lollard Society
The Society is run by an international community of scholars. We welcome scholars and students with an interest in any aspect of late-medieval religious, devotional, heretical and dissident cultures.