IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 643: The Wycliffite Bible: New Research
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | 'Towards a New Edition of the Wycliffite Bible', Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
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| Organiser: | Elizabeth Solopova, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anne Hudson, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Paper 643-a | 'More trewe and more open': Methods Used in Revision of the Wycliffite Translation (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 643-b | Bodleian Library, Oxford MS 554 and William Thorpe's Psalter (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 643-c | 'Of the bridalis of Crist': Explaining the Wycliffite Song of Songs (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session showcases recent research on the Wycliffite Bible, the first complete English translation of the Bible. Despite its importance as the most widely disseminated medieval English text, the Wycliffite Bible remains little explored by modern scholarship. Speakers will focus on diverse aspects of the Bible's early history: textual and polemical practices of biblical glossing; methods used in translation and its revision; and the manuscript presentation of the Song of Songs, a text posing formidable challenges for book-producers. The session is organised in association with the Oxford-based AHRC-funded project to work towards a new edition of the Bible. |