The Reformation Studies Colloquium - Programme

Registration and lunch - 12.00-13.30 

Session 1 - 13.30-15.00

1A England

• Bryn Blake (KCL) - "Crosse Keys and the Sword of Romulus": The Western Schism in English Protestant Polemic c. 1530-1603
• Letty Pilgrim (Cambridge)  - Practising faith in old age in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
• Mary Morrissey (Reading) - Reformation Civic Ceremony and the Easter Spital Sermons 

1B Saints and Sacred Landscapes

• Mia Condron Asquith (Cambridge) - Transformations of Lecceto’s past in the oeuvre of Ambrogio Landucci
• Amy Scott (Independent) - “brazen images of canonized saints”: Devout Ritual and Narratives of Reformation in Shakespeare’s Henry VI Plays
• Beau Kilpatrick (Louisville)  - The Religiosity of Sainthood: The Middle Ages and the Catholic Reformation

1C Remembering the Reformation

• David Van Der Linden (Groningen) - Remembering Iconoclasm: Conflict and Coexistence  after the French Wars of Religion
• Cameron Bowman (Oxford) - The True Church and Slavery: The history of the Reformation in eighteenth century slavery debates
• Laura Stewart (York) - Presbyterians and history-making in post-reformation Scotland

Tea/Coffee Break - 15.00-15.30 

Session 2 - 15.30-17.00 

2A  Elizabethan England

• Louise-Aurore Bonny (Durham) - Queen Elizabeth and the International Protestant Network during the Scottish Reformation Crisis, 1559–1560
• Ebrahim Hanifehpour (Oxford) - ''Our Cirus our anoynted': Persian Models for Further Reformation in Elizabethan England'
• Andrea Hugill (Independent) - The Jewel-Harding Controversy Against the Backdrop of the Council of Trent 

2B Controversy, Consensus, and Exemplars

• Irene Gómez (Barcelona) - The vineyard and the fox: Two doctrinal controversies in the wake of the Song of Songs (1560-1585)
• Saulo Maia (Belfast) - Formula Helvetic Consensus (1669–1679)
• Hannah Richardson (Durham) - ‘That Godly Prince’: Hezekiah as a model monarch in the Books of Homilies

2C Toleration in the Holy Roman Empire

• Anastazja Maria Grudnicka (Oxford) -  The Ecology of Toleration: Law, Environment, and the Churches of Peace in Habsburg Silesia
• Jack Arnold (Boston) - Jan of Pernštejn and the Policy of Multiconfessionalism in Moravia
• Jacob W. Rhodes (Boston) - From Augsburg to Westphalia: The Development of Toleration in the HRE

Tea/Coffee Break - 17.00-17.30

Plenary Lecture 1 - 17.30-18.45 

•  Professor Rosamund Oates, ‘Silent Histories: Deafness in the Reformation’

Session 3 - 9.00-10.30 

3A Missions and Missionaries

• Alec Ryrie (Duhram) - Protestant Missionaries on How to Convert Heathens
• Alexander Van Dijk (Cambridge) - Between scholarship and mission: Arabic translation of the Bible in seventeenth-century England
• Daniel Johnson (London School of Theology)- “He Sets the Pris’ner Free’: Hymns, Missions, and Slavery’

3B England in the Long Seventeenth Century

• Jake Griesel (George Whitefield College) - Zachary Cawdrey (1616–84) and the perils of moderate conformity in seventeenth-century England
• Tim Reinke-Williams (Northampton) - The Religio-Politics of Spitting in Post-Reformation England
• Mary Whittingdale (Cambridge) - Weaving Work and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England

3C Spaces and Places

• Megan Holmes (Cambridge) - Walking in the church and churchyard, 1400-1600
• Jonathan Willis (Birmingham) - ‘honorably adorned and garnished’? The people and the parish church in the long English reformation
• Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes) - Demise of Sacred Space? Rites of Consecration and the Henrician Reformation

Tea/Coffee Break - 10.30--11.00 

Session 4 - 11.00-12.30 

4A English Catholics

• Mark Allen (Independent) - Reassessing Catholicism, coexistence, and religio-political crises in early Stuart London, c. 1603-1643.
• Madison Keightley-Phillipps (Durham) - Raising ‘Prudent and Vertuouse Women’: The Religious Education and Readership of Catholic Girls in Early Modern England.
• Aude de Mézerac-Zanetti (Lille) - Restoring the mass under Mary I 

4B Death and Grief

• Sam Dominy (York) - “So many Lectures of despaire”:  Despair in English Polemic
• Abraham Sullivan (St Andrews) - ‘The Seventeenth-Century English Funeral Sermon as Ars Moriendi’
• James Kendrick (Nottingham Trent) - Regret and the Reformation: the will of Sir John Byron of Colwich

4C Medicine, Witchcraft, and Radicalism

• Justo Hernandez (La Laguna) - Michael Servetus and the Radical Reformation
• Anna French (Liverpool) - “Despightfull Embryo in secret plac’t”: Witchcraft, Spiritual Deliverance and Stories of Pregnancy Loss
• Rimliya Tariq Telkenaroglu (McGill) - “To all that professe Christianity…”: The Reformation and Radical Religious Dissent

Lunch - 12.30-13.30

Session 5 - 13.30-15.00

5A Material Culture

• Sarah Bastow (Huddersfield) - ‘Pious materials: material objects and the expression of gendered Catholic lay piety’.
• Laura Sangha (Exeter) - The Material Culture of Death and Commemoration in Early Modern England
• Martin Kjellgren (Malmö) - Artefacts of the Reformation: The Preserved Copies of Thet Nyia Testamentit på  Swensko 1526 

5B Central Europe

• Phillip Haberkern (Boston) - The Czech Unity of Brethren and the Art of the Apologetic Confession
• Maria Crăciun (Babeș-Bolyai) - Taking Women Out of the Picture: Lutheran Visual Culture and Its Social Context in Early Modern Transylvania
• Michał E. Nowakowski (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) - Brokers of Controversy: How a Few Polemicists Shaped Confessional Polemics in Early Modern Vilnius (1574–1647).

5C Administering Reformation

• Donald Spaeth (Glasgow) - The Annotations of John Whitgift
• Julius van der Poel (Leiden) - Overcoming Uncertainty: Jan van Hout (1542-1609), Archival Politics, and the Consolidation of Monastic Property in Post-Revolt Leiden

Tea/Coffee Break - 15.00-15.30 

Session 6 - 15.30-17.00

6A Poverty, Inequality, and Merchants

• Andrew Wareham (Roehampton) - Economic inequality and social mobility in Restoration England. Troutbeck, Townend and the Browne family
• Richard Williams (Roehampton) - The definition of Poverty in Restoration England? Some evidence from the Hearth Tax returns in Sussex
• Cheryl Butler (Winchester) - Cold in Religion; a micro-study of the mercantile community of Southampton. 

6B Privacy and the Home

• Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge) - 'Doorways to Salvation? The Protestant Home and the Art of Inscription in Early Modern Britain'
• Samuel Clark (Oxford) - Privacy in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII

6C Early English Reformation

• Mishael Knight (Cambridge) - A Scandal in Frankfurt: The Tudor ‘Godly’ and Poor Relief
• Christian Owen (Cambridge) - “Began the Holy Church in Great Ruin”: A Crypto-Catholic Priest’s Perspective on the Early Reformation
• Susan Haskins (Independent) - ”Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping”: The Reformation Magdalen, A Sign of Her Times

Tea/Coffee Break - 17.00-17.30 

Plenary Lecture 2 - 17.30-18.45 

• Professor Craig Harline, ‘The Pastor’s Love Song’

Session 7 - 9.00-10.30 

7A Books

• Alexander da Costa (Cambridge) - Encountering Forbidden Books: Censorship and Affect in Early Tudor England
• Harry Spillane (Cambridge) - Bibles in Windows: The Problematic Materiality of the Bible in Post-Reformation England
• Kajsa Weber (Lund) - Pro-Reformation Printing in the Periphery of the European Book World

7B Results and Perspectives of the Project “16th Century Exegesis of Paul” 

• Noemi Schürmann (Zurich) - Ecclesia sine macula et ruga? A Historical and Religious Studies Investigation of Reformation-Era Commentaries on the Epistle to the Ephesians in the Swiss Confederation (1500–c. 1550)
• Matteo Colombo (Geneva/Zurich) - Reframing Scripture: St. Jerome’s Legacy and the Paratextual Rewriting of the Bible in the Early Modern Period
• Benjamin Manig (Geneva/Zurich) - The Romans Paraenesis (Rom 12-15) in the Perspective of 16th-Century Exegesis.
• Floriane Goy (Geneva/Zurich) - Digital Reading and Its Limits: 16th-Century Commentaries on Timothy as a Case Study 

7C English Catholics on the Continent

• Adyan Sharda (St Andrews) - The Popularity and Reception of English Catholic Writers in Counter-Reformation Europe
• Jon Chant (Durham) - Nobody Expects the English Inquisition: Collaboration and Censorship in 17th Century Lisbon
• Katy Gibbons (Portsmouth) - International and local elements of martyrdom: remembering Thomas Percy, 7th earl of Northumberland

Tea/Coffee Break - 10.30-11.00 

Session 8 - 11.00-12.30 

8A Scandinavia and Iceland

• Martin Berntson (Gothenburg) - The hidden reformer: some problems in writing a biography on the Swedish reformer Olaus Petri
• Vilborg Ísleifsdóttir-Bickel (Reykjavik) - The Poor Relief in Iceland in the Time of the Reformation
• Fanny Bäckman Wingborg (Gothenburg) - The Virgin Mary in Swedish Lutheran sermons, c. 1530–1770

8B Visual Culture in England, 1500-1700: Pictures, Print and Performance

• Tara Hamling (Birmingham) - The Malleable Mermaid: Sight, Sin, Skill and Self-reflection in English Visual Culture 1500-1700
• Adam Morton (Newcastle) - Biting Satire: The Lambe Speaketh (1555), ridicule, and the Marian Burnings
• Lucy Wooding (Oxford) - The Performance of Prayer and the English Reformation

8C At the Crossroads of Early Modernity: John Mair (c.1467-1550) and the Reformation

• Giovanni Gellera (Geneva) - An Oracle, a Theologaster, or both? John Mair among the Protestants
• Matteo Esu (Geneva) - An (Unwilling) Witness of Change. John Mair on New Trends of Biblical Translation and Exegesis - between Humanism and Reformation in the 1520s
• Daniel Alleman (Geneva) - Servitude and Sovereignty. John Mair and the Protestant Reception of Natural Slavery

Lunch - 12.30-13.30 

Plenary Lecture - 13.30-14.45 

• Professor Emily Michelson, ‘A multifaith reformation: spaces, bodies, encounters’