Fiona Somerset (NHC Fellow, 2006–07)

Project Title

Feeling Like Saints: Lollard Affect and the Contestation of Holiness, 1370-1550

Duke University

Fellowship Work Summary, 2006–07

Fiona Somerset worked extensively on and completed Four Wycliffite Dialogues, a critical edition with commentary, for the Early English Text Society (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and drafted the remaining two chapters of a monograph Feeling Like Saints. She wrote an article on "Emotions" for the Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism (forthcoming 2008) and a book review for Speculum. In addition, she edited (with Lawrence Warner and Andrew Cole) The Yearbook of Langland Studies, vol. 20 (2006).

Genre > Monographs

Feeling Like Saints: Lollard Writings after Wyclif

Religion / History / Literary Criticism / Lollardy / Writing / Primary Sources / Middle English Literature / History of Christianity /

Genre > Edited Volumes

Four Wycliffite Dialogues: Dialogue between Jon and Richard, Dialogue between a Friar and a Secular, Dialogue between Reson and Gabbyng, Dialogue between a Clerk and a Knight

Religion / Literature / Lollardy / Middle English Literature / Christian Literature /