The Reformation Studies Colloquium - Programme
Please find the programme below. Please note that it is provisional and may be subject to change.
All sessions to be held at the UCL Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0XG
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’