vaclav_brozik_-_husIn conjunction with the website, The Latin Works of John Wyclif, Fordham will be hosting a conference this coming June entitled “Europe After Wyclif”. Fordham is sponsoring the conference jointly with Michael Van Dussen at McGill University, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Lollard Society. It is co-chaired by Fordham Theology Professor J. Patrick Hornbeck II, and will take place at the Lincoln Center Campus, June 4-6, 2014.

“Europe after Wyclif” aims to explore the impact of John Wyclif, a controversial Oxford scholar, and the L/lollards in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, particularly in continental contexts. By taking an interdisciplinary approach to the theme, the conference organizers highlight intersections between Wycliffism, traditionally considered a purely insular heresy of the fourteenth century, and broader European cultural trends. Most of the presentations will address Wycliffism or oppositions to it in England and abroad, but some will focus on related contemporary religious movements, such as the Hussites and Waldensians. Scholars of late-medieval religion, literature, and politics will find this conference exciting as it links geographic and cultural areas that are most often treated separately. The full program is listed on the conference website, along with instructions on how to register.

The Latin Works of John Wyclif, a digital initiative first undertaken by Dr. Hornbeck and Georgetown Professor Penn Szittya, includes Latin Wyclif image letters, sermons, and other works within the Wyclif corpus. The site’s continuing aim is to digitize the full canon of Wyclif’s works, first published in nineteenth- and twentieth-century editions.