Lollardy and Literature
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Lollard Society
Organizer Name
Mary Raschko, Robyn Malo
Organizer Affiliation
Whitman College, Purdue Univ.
Presider Name
Robyn Malo
Paper Title 1
Exaggerating the Effects of Arundel's Constitutions on Literary Production
Presenter 1 Name
Henry Ansgar Kelly
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Los Angeles
Paper Title 2
The Nature of the Question in the Vernacular: Lollardy and the Laity
Presenter 2 Name
Erika D. Harman
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Paper Title 3
Literary Lollards: Forms of Faith, Arts of Polemic
Presenter 3 Name
Mary Raschko
Paper Title 4
Respondent
Presenter 4 Name
Emily Steiner
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Start Date
13-5-2016 1:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 1060
Description
As a part of the so-called “religious turn,” the study of lollardy (or Wycliffism) in Middle English literature has flourished over the past two decades. This panel aims to take stock of what such scholarship has achieved and to identify directions for future research. Do we read Chaucer, Langland, Hoccleve, or Lydgate differently in light of lollard studies? If we don’t, should we? What place do lollard texts hold in the corpus of Middle English literature or within English literature curricula? How do we better understand anticlerical, antifraternal, or other dissenting discourses within English literary history? Alternatively, how might emphasis on lollardy distort the literary landscape, such that we become too prone to “smelle a loller in the wind”? The panel will address assumptions, methods, and research questions that shape our understanding of dissent, reform, or heterodox belief in Middle English literature.
Lollardy and Literature
Fetzer 1060
As a part of the so-called “religious turn,” the study of lollardy (or Wycliffism) in Middle English literature has flourished over the past two decades. This panel aims to take stock of what such scholarship has achieved and to identify directions for future research. Do we read Chaucer, Langland, Hoccleve, or Lydgate differently in light of lollard studies? If we don’t, should we? What place do lollard texts hold in the corpus of Middle English literature or within English literature curricula? How do we better understand anticlerical, antifraternal, or other dissenting discourses within English literary history? Alternatively, how might emphasis on lollardy distort the literary landscape, such that we become too prone to “smelle a loller in the wind”? The panel will address assumptions, methods, and research questions that shape our understanding of dissent, reform, or heterodox belief in Middle English literature.