IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1746: The Muddying of Factional Demarcations in Late Medieval English Religious Discourses
Thursday 6 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Lollard Society |
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| Organiser: | Ian Johnson, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies / School of English, University of St Andrews |
| Moderator/Chair: | Michael van Dussen, Department of English, Ohio State University |
| Paper 1746-a | 'Commyning togider': Shared Modes of Religious Conversation in 15th-Century England and Their Implications for the Orthodox-Heterodox Dichotomy (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 1746-b | The Lemmatic Orthodox Community in between and amongst Fragmentary Interpretations in the Middle English Wycliffite Glossed Gospels (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 1746-c | 'Quere': Textual Auditors in and around the Common Profit Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Social History |
| Abstract | This session investigates the variegated and productive ways in which an orthodox-heterodox dichotomy was straddled and may be brought into question for modern scholars through examples of practice spanning formally different but comparable loci in late medieval English oral and written culture. Whereas one paper interrogates the performative grounds of communal conversations about religion across the heretic-orthodox divide, another examines hermeneutic conversations muddying the same divide, as afforded by the hybridity of the Middle English Wycliffite Glossed Gospels - a vernacular biblical version which, though dissident, nevertheless draws on standard Latin biblical exegesis. A third presentation in this session explores a further comparable muddying of notions of simple lines of demarcation between lay religious factions revealed by Londoners' practices of auditing common-profit religious books. |