medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Thirty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 8-11, 2003
Sessions Proposed by the Lollard Society
Here are the sessions the Lollard society has proposed for Kalamazoo
2003. The sessions proposed are still subject to approval, though in
recent years, we have usually gotten what we have asked for.
Please pass these descriptions on to others who might be interested, or
post them on websites; please tell your graduate students about them;
and if you might want to give a paper, please contact Fiona Somerset as
soon as possible.
1) Literary Experimentation in Lollard Writings: Genres, Modes,
Conceits
Following on the extraordinary success of this year's Lollards and
Aesthetics session, this session would invite papers on the (often
overlooked) literary qualities of some Lollard texts, such as their use
of narrative, allegory, extended metaphor, literary genre, rhetorical
figures, etc.
2) Unity and Division: Lollards and Others.
How do Lollards discuss/represent other despised groups with which they
are often linked or compared, ranging from hypocrites to counterfeiters
to friars to Jews to Muslims to persons of same-sex orientation to
foreigners to members of other heretical groups? What do hostile
representations of Lollards and members of other despised groups have in
common -- and what features might be distinctive to the representation
of Lollards? How might the criticism and persecution of Lollards affect
other groups? What sorts of ideological work might such representations
and counter-representations accomplish? Papers addressing any or all of
these questions would be welcome.
3) Lollards and the Court
Cosponsored by the White Hart society: primary contact person, Fiona
Somerset of the Lollard Society. Papers on Lollard and/or other
writings that address persons of courtly status, on writings by Lollard
opponents that attempt to disrupt or counter Lollard appeals to the
court, on the Lollard knights, on the ownership of Lollard books by
persons with court associations, on Ricardian and/or Lancastrian
propaganda against heretics, or other Lollard- and court-related topics.
4) Langlandian Canons: The Piers Plowman Traditions
With the cosponsorship of the Yearbook of Langland Studies, this session
asks for papers which examine either members of the existing Piers
Plowman tradition (the Upland Series, Plowman's Tale, Piers the
Plowman's Crede, Richard the Redeles, Mum and the Sothsegger, and others
listed in Hudson's contribution to Alford's Companion -- whether Lollard
or not) OR, on the other hand, texts (Lollard or not) which bear enough
similarities with either Piers Plowman itself or texts in the Piers
Plowman tradition that they can fruitfully be compared with Piers
Plowman tradition texts or Piers Plowman itself -- and perhaps even be
included in an expanded Langlandian canon. Note: although you may wish
to discuss possible papers with Fiona Somerset, the primary contact
person for this session is Andrew Cole, organizer of the YLS sessions,
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If you are interested in submitting abstracts for any of these sessions,
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Fiona Somerset
http://publish.uwo.ca/~fsomerse
Assoc. Prof. Medieval English
Dept. of English
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario Canada N6A 3K7
tel.(+) 519 661 2111 ext 85835
fax (+) 519 661 3776
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