New Perspectives on Heretical Discourse and Identities

Contents: Sarah Alyn Stacey: Introductory Essay: Trinity College Dublin as a Waldensian lieu de mémoire - Joanna Poetz: Review of Contributions: Part I - Sarah Alyn Stacey: Review of Contributions: Part II - Editing Waldensian Texts and Manuscripts: Marina Benedetti: Of Manuscripts and Men: The Case of the Waldenses - Caterina Menichetti: Circulation de livres et stratégies de traduction dans les communautés vaudoises (ca. 1500) : pour l'édition critique des Actes des Apôtres en occitan Vaudois - Joanna Poetz: Text and Circulation amongst the Waldensians: The Example of TCD Manuscript 262 - Lothar Vogel: Die Somme le Roi in den Waldenserhandschriften - Andrea Giraudo: The Critical Edition of the Waldensian Sermons: History, Challenges and Further Avenues for Research - Constructing Waldensian Identity: Alfonso Tortora: Una difficile eredità per la Riforma elvetico strasburghese: i valdesi del Mezzogiorno d'Italia - Georg Modestin: The Waldensians of Upper Austria (1395- 1399): The Middle Ages' «Forgotten Heretics» in Historical Fact and Literary Fiction - Marco Bettassa: « La Tirannie vaudoise »: stereotipi culturali e immagine pubblica dei valdesi tra il ducato sabaudo e il Baden Württemberg - Yutaka Arita: L'Identité vaudoise : l'évolution de la légende sur leur origine depuis la Réforme jusqu'au dix neuvième siècle - Marianne Cailloux: Religion et identité visuelle : les Vaudois et l'image peinte dans les Alpes Occidentales à la fin du Moyen Âge - Marco Fratini: «A step or two nearer to the Anglican Church»: English, Scottish and Irish Contributions to the Creation of the Waldensian Libraries in the Nineteenth Century - Patricia E. McKee: James Henthorn Todd, FTCD: His Work on the Waldensians in the Context of Nineteenth Century Ireland.

Sarah Alyn Stacey, FTCD, is Associate Professor of French Renaissance Literature in Trinity College Dublin, Director of the Trinity Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, a member of the Académie de Savoie and a Chevalier de l'ordre national du mérite. She publishes in the field of French Renaissance literature with particular reference to the court of Savoy and the poet Marc-Claude de Buttet.

Joanna Poetz completed her PhD in the Department of French in Trinity College Dublin. As part of her doctoral thesis, supervised by Dr Sarah Alyn Stacey, she prepared a critical edition of the Waldensian treatises written in Occitan and uniquely preserved in the manuscripts of the Old Library in Trinity College Dublin. Her PhD research was funded by the Irish Research Council under the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Programme. In 2018 she was awarded the Eda Sagarra Medal of Excellence by the Irish Research Council.