Liverpool’s Dr Anna French is convenor of the 2023 meeting, and the Reformation Studies Colloquium's arrival at the University of Liverpool marks the first time this prestigious event has been hosted in the North-West of England.
This event will be taking place between September 6-8 2023.
Plenary Speakers
The plenary speakers for this year’s conference are:
Dr Tara Hamling (University of Birmingham): ‘Negotiating the Hellmouth in English visual culture, 1400-1700'
Dr Graeme Murdock (Trinity College Dublin): 'Slow Reformation: towards a history of rural religious life''
Professor Judith Pollmann (Leiden University): 'The reformation of method. Reformation history as a laboratory for the social history of knowledge'
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PROGRAMME
Day 1: September 6
Registration and lunch: 11.00-12.30
Session 1: 12.30-14.00
Session A: Global Dimensions of the Reformation
Alec Ryrie (Durham): The world’s Reformation: rethinking early modern Protestant global missions
Alexander van Dijk (Cambridge): “They say that gold is our God”: fetishism in Dutch early seventeenth-century travel literature
Mohamed Afkir (Laghouat): North African Piracy in the Aftermath of the Reformation
Session B: Catholicism in Reformation England
Anna Fielding (Independent): Catholic Commensality and Negotiating Tables in Early Modern Lancashire
Sarah Bastow (Huddersfield): The Materiality of Catholic Lay Piety
James Kendrick (Nottingham Trent): The Survival of Catholic JPs in Elizabethan Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire
Teas and coffees: 14.00-14.30
Session 2: 14.30-15.30
Session A: Death and Dying in Reformation Europe
Elizabeth Wilkinson (Liverpool): “Ye need not fear ether sathan or sinne”: Prayer as a means of overcoming the Devil and deathbed fear in Thomas Becon’s The Sycke Mans Salue
Elizabeth Tingle (De Montfort): The Materiality of Religious Conflict: The Politics of Cathedral Funerary Monuments in the French Wars of Religion.
Session B: Persecution and the Persecuted
Ben Kaplan (University College London): The Mechanics of Persecution in a Tolerant State: The Case of Johannes Torrentius (1588-1644), Painter, Libertine, Cult-Leader
Rady Roldán-Figueroa (Boston): The Theology of Conquest of Juan López de Palacios Rubios (1450–1524) and Fray Matías de Paz, O.P. (c. 1468–1519), and the Forced Conversion of Jews
Comfort break: 15.30-15.45
Session 3: 15.45-16.45
Session A: “Anglicanism” and its Champions
Augur Pearce (Independent): Church and Realm in the English Reformation Statutes
Andrea Hugill (Independent): John Jewell’s Discord with the Theologies of Luther and Knox
Session B: The Margins of the Reformation: An ERRG Roundtable
Speakers: Heather Cowan (Liverpool), Sarah K Hitchen (Manchester Metropolitan), Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan)
Teas and coffees: 16.45-17.15
Plenary Lecture 1: 17.15-18.30
Tara Hamling (Birmingham): Negotiating the Hellmouth in English visual culture, 1400-1700
End of Day 1
Day 2: September 7
Session 4: 9.00-10.00
Session A: Liturgies in Reformation England
Laura Sangha (Exeter): The Book of Common Prayer and Popular Protestantism in England c.1560-1640
Jake Griesel (Cape Town): No Necessity of Reformation: John Pearson's Clash with Cornelius Burges on the 39 Articles (1660)
Session B: Experience and the Household
Holly Bamford (Liverpool): Conflicting Masculinities: Examining The Depictions Of Patriarchal Authority In The Throckmorton Possession Case
Michael Green (Lodz): Egodocuments, Religion and Privacy in the Early Modern Period
Teas and coffees: 10.00-10.30
Session 5: 10.30-12.00
Session A: Sensing The Reformation
Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan): ‘He Who Has An Ear, Let Him Hear’: Deafness, Sound and Speech in the Reformation
Jacob Hendry (Cambridge): Thunderous Echoes, Sensation, and Sacred Landscapes in Ireland, 1700-1760
Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge): Intimate Religion: Devotional Jewellery and the Reformation of Touch in Early Modern England
Session B: Republic and Reformation
Gary Rivett (York St John): The Reformation of the Parish Church in the English Revolution: The Committee for Plundered Ministers, Parochial Surveillance, and the Early Modern Information State
Joseph Dunlap (Queen’s University Belfast): Samuel Rutherford's theorization of civil resistance
Lunch: 12.00-13.00
Session 6: 13.00-14.30
Session A: Reading Books in the Reformation
Adam Morton (Newcastle): Anti-popery & Protestant piety in Stephen Bateman’s Christall Glass of Christian Reformation (1569)
Maria Crăciun (Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj): The Book as Object in Early Modern Transylvania
Sarah Farkas (UNC Chapel Hill): Trinket and Tome: Reformation Images on a Woman’s Girdle Book in the British Museum
Session B: Health, Identity and Community in Reformation England
Heather Cowan (Liverpool): “Better to die with one stroke than to languish in a continuall famine”: Reimagining Infanticide as an Act of Kindness within Seventeenth-Century Popular Works
Jonathan Willis (Birmingham): “Strange enthusiastical exhortations”: Mental illness and Religious Identity in Reformation England
Sarah K Hitchen (Manchester Metropolitan): When does piety, or a crisis of conscience, become lunacy? Religion and the mentally ill in early modern England
Comfort break: 14.30-14.45
Session 7: 14.45-15.45
Session A: Earliest Reformations: Infants and Protestantism
Olivia Formby (Cambridge): Infants’ Sweetness in Early Modern England
Anna French (Liverpool): Being in Protestant Britain: The Ontological Case of the Youngest Child
Session B: Marian Contestations and its Consequences
Frederick Smith (Oxford): Nobody Expects the English Inquisition: The European influence of the Marian Persecutions
John Craig (Simon Fraser): Reformation and Revenge in Tudor London
Teas and coffees: 15.45-16.15
Plenary Lecture 2: 16.15-17.30
Judith Pollmann (Leiden): The reformation of method. Reformation history as a laboratory for the social history of knowledge.
ERRG wine reception, with short early career publishing roundtable: 17.30-19.00
End of Day 2
Day 3: September 8
Session 8: 9.00am-10.00am
Session A: Puritanism and its Networks
Bryn Blake (King’s College London): The Religious and Honourable Patrons of Master Perkins
Jonathan Badley (Cambridge): The Rhetoric of Spiritual Kinship Among the Godly in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Session B: Stuart Reform
David Coney (Edinburgh): “Wherein was a glorious altar sett up, […] quiristers appoynted to sing, and the Inglish service ordained to be said daylie”: The Jacobean/Caroline Revival of the Chapel Royal of Scotland (1603-1641)
Eoin Devlin (Cambridge): Peter Heylyn’s Reformations and the Restoration crisis of popery
Cathedral tour: 10.30am-12noon
Lunch: 12 noon-13.00pm
Plenary 3: 13.00pm-14.15pm
SHER Murdock (Trinity College Dublin): Slow Reformation: Towards a History of Rural Religious Life
End of Conference
Call for Papers
The call for papers is currently open to scholars at any career stage, in any related discipline or disciplines, and who specialise in reformation and early modern studies, broadly defined. Papers can explore any and all confessions and denominations; micro or macro histories; national or global contexts; they can examine the reformations and early modern period in the longer context, and, as always, interdisciplinary papers are welcome.
Papers will be twenty minutes long. We are also happy to receive suggestions for panels and roundtables. In your proposal submission, please include a 300-word paper abstract and a 100-word biography. If you're proposing a panel or roundtable, please also submit a 300-word description of that event. All proposals will need to be received, to frenchal@liverpool.ac.uk, by Friday 9 June 2023.
The RSC is kindly sponsored by the Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
About Liverpool
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