| HR-50247-06 | Research Programs: Faculty Research Awards | Elizabeth Kate Schirmer | Inventing English Textuality in 15th-Century Religious Writing | 9/1/2006 - 8/31/2007 | $40,000.00 | Elizabeth | Kate | Schirmer | | | | New Mexico State University | Las Cruces | NM | 88003-8002 | USA | 2005 | Medieval Studies | Faculty Research Awards | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
Examines disparate canonizing gestures in 15th-c. religious writing, to rethink the impact of Lollardy on English reading and writing. Challenging a view of the Lollards as democratizers and their opponents as censors, argues that each side in the controversy canonized a single model of reading as uniquely authoritative. Describes alternate canonizing projects that sought to preserve the diversity and multiplicity of 14th-c. vernacular theologies, resisting the polarizing and essentializing impulses of the Lollard controversy. Analyzes the role of gender and of narrative in these competing inventions of English textuality; asks how they might complicate received narratives of the transition from medieval to Early Modern. |