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The Intersection of Clerical Authorship and Lay Piety in Medieval Drama At the recent ‘05 Congress, this session idea was met with enthusiasm at the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society business meeting, as well as in conversations with scholars working on lay piety. The topic is current and in deserving of attention. This session will provide an opportunity for scholars to discuss medieval drama as an expression of clerical authorship and lay piety. We cannot be certain of any one author of late medieval plays, but we can learn how their authors thought by carefully studying the plays they wrote in conjunction with related medieval tracts used to educate the laity along with other sources available to them. The field of medieval drama has increasingly studied late medieval lay piety in order to better grasp the cultural contexts that gave rise to medieval plays. This session invites scholars to specifically consider medieval drama in this interdisciplinary light and to consider the intellectual environment that gave rise to medieval drama based on a reading of the plays. It will provide a forum for this discussion now current in medieval drama and studies of lay piety and open pathways for future research of this topic. Proposals to: Mary Maxine Browne <[log in to unmask]> Deadline: 15 Spetember 2005 -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page