IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 316: Lollards and Emotions
Monday 10 July 2006, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | The Lollard Society |
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Organiser: | Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford |
Paper 316-a | A Battle of Souls: Hyperbole and Invective in the 'General Prologue' to the Wycliffite Bible (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life, Rhetoric |
Paper 316-b | A Lollard Climate of Feeling?: Reading and Emotion in a Middle English Bible Summary (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life, Rhetoric |
Paper 316-c | Lollardy and Affect: The Orthodox Perspective (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Middle English, Religious Life, Rhetoric |
Abstract | There is a gaping hole in the study of Lollardy where affect should be. We have been so concerned to demonstrate Lollard intellectual aspirations that we have virtually ignored how Lollards felt about their religion. The first two papers in this session take bibles as the starting-point for explorations concerning what it felt like to be Lollard, the first concentrating on invective in the Wycliffite 'General Prologue' and the second exploring a little-known Middle English summary of the Bible that expresses a distinctively Lollard climate of feeling. The third paper responds by considering how 'orthodox' writers understood and/or constructed the relationship between Lollardy and affect, and whether or not there is any common ground between these constructions and Lollard self-representation. |