Dear colleagues:
As requested, here is a short description of my academic background
and interests:
Chris Nighman, Research Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance
Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto
My broad interest is in orthodox pastoral reform in England in the
early 15th century, especially the provision of preachers, in response
to Lollards/Wycliffites. This led me to study the sermons preached by
English delegates to the Council of Constance (1414-18), especially
Richard Fleming, future bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln
College, Oxford. I have also become interested in the several
eulogies preached at the late medieval councils as expressions of
differing cultural and philosophical values: "scholastic" vs.
"humanist" and extent to which these councils functioned as conduits
for the spread of Italian humanist ideas to the rest of Europe.
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