IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 739: Political Activism and the Later Wycliffites
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Lollard Society / Centrum Medievistických Studií, Praha |
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| Organisers: | Pavel Soukup, Centre for Medieval Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha Michael van Dussen, Department of English, Ohio State University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Michael van Dussen, Department of English, Ohio State University |
| Paper 739-a | Lollard Activism in Mid 15th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Political Thought |
| Paper 739-b | Criticism of the Hussite Crusades: Pragmatic and Pacifist Approaches (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Crusades |
| Paper 739-c | Later Lollard Pacifism (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Political Thought |
| Abstract | Wycliffites in mid 15th-century England are thought to have increasingly withdrawn from the publicly engaged reformism of earlier decades, congregating instead in private homes to read Scripture and hear sermons. There is, however, significant evidence of Wycliffite involvement in the social and political disturbances that affected both England and Hussite Bohemia at this time, from resistance to the anti-Hussite crusades, to the Lollard uprising of 1431, and finally participation in Cade's revolt (1453). Panelists will present research on this flourishing of religiously motivated political activism and provide context for militant and pacifist positions from the crusading polemics in Central Europe. |