IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 132: Wycliffites, Sacraments, and Sacramentals
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Lollard Society |
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Organiser: | Mishtooni Carys Anne Bose, Christ Church College, University of Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | Johan Bergström-Allen, Carmelite Institute of Britain & Ireland, Dublin / Université de Lausanne / Saint Albert's Press |
Paper 132-a | Vain, Void, and Superfluous?: Lollard Views on the Sacraments of Initiation (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Theology |
Paper 132-b | An Orthodox Theology of Sacramentals in the 15th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Theology |
Paper 132-c | Hoccleve's 'open shrifte' and Its Implications (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Theology |
Abstract | In this session, the Lollard Society explores the Congress theme in relation to the sacraments - here, baptism and confession - and sacramentals. Using perspectives generated by theology, history and literary studies, we investigate the diversity of Wycliffite interpretations of baptism and the relationship between these and avowedly orthodox theology concerning sacramentals in the 15th century. Poised between these polarities, our third paper asks how Hoccleve's poetry expressed and metabolised issues concerning the purposes, and the processes, of confession, particularly in the images of 'open shrifte' that recur in his Series. |