Early Modern Catholicism Graduate and Early Career Workshop (December 2013)
A hub to encourage, enhance, and promote research touching on all aspects of early modern Catholicism from across the academic disciplines, with the aim to facilitate links between scholars based within different faculties.
Early Modern Catholicism Seminars (February – June 2014)
First of a series of eight lunchtime seminars to bring together graduates, postdocs, and all early career researchers working on early modern Catholicism across the humanities. (February 2014)
Research Problems: Discussing Plans. (February 2014)
Writing Workshop: Discussing Drafts. (March 2014)
Victoria van Hyning (Sheffield), ‘Convent Autobiography by English Nuns in Exile: Beyond Confessor-Mandated Vitae’ (May 2014)
Irène Plasman-Labrune (Paris), ‘Between Church and State? Foreign Churchmen and the Transformations of Catholicism in France, 1500-1700’ (May 2014)
Oliver Ford (Oxford), ‘Coping with Decline: The Governors of Seville, 1647-1700’ (May 2014)
Tara Alberts (York), ‘Miracles and Missionary Medicine in Early Modern Southeast Asia’ (June 2014)
Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge), ‘The Pope’s Merchandise and the Jesuits’ Trumpery: Catholic Relics and Protestant Polemic in Early Modern England’ (June 2014)
Early Modern Catholic Life-Writing (May 2014)
Event Held:
The Programme:
Welcome and introduction, Dr. Nicholas Davidson (St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)
Chair: Dr. John-Paul Ghobrial (Balliol College, University of Oxford)
Robin MacDonald (University of York), '"I wrote to you from the sea": landscapes, 'travelling narratives', and seventeenth century missionaries to New France'
Liesbeth Corens (Jesus College, University of Cambridge), 'Collecting as mission: English Catholic record collectors bridging the channel'
Chair: Katie McKeogh (Linacre College, University of Oxford)
Arthur Downing (All Souls College, University of Oxford), 'Social network analysis: a tool for early modern historians'
Chair: Emma Turnbull (Balliol College, University of Oxford)
Katie McKeogh (Linacre College, University of Oxford), 'Flowers of Fathers: contemporary and historical Catholic lives in an English Catholic commonplace book'
Johannes Depnering (Oriel College, University of Oxford), 'Writing about "mystical experiences" in a diary-like manuscript: the late-medieval Dominican nun Elsbeth von Oye'
Chair: Tom Hamilton (New College, University of Oxford)
Marion de Lencquesaing (University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle), 'How to begin the life of a saint after the Counter-Reformation? The portrait of the most Catholic Bénigne Frémyot in the first Lives of Jeanne de Chantal'
A series of eight lunchtime discussion groups were held to consider new approaches to sanctity in the early modern world.
Conveners: Nicholas Davidson, Tom Hamilton, Katie McKeogh Emma Turnbull
Approaches to Sanctity: (October 2014)
Reading: Clare Copeland, ‘Sanctity’ in Alexandra Bamji, Geert H. Janssen, and Mary Laven eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation (Farnham, 2013), pp. 225-241.*
Simon Ditchfield, ‘Thinking with Saints: Sanctity and Society in the Early Modern World’, Critical Enquiry, 35 (2009), pp. 552-584.
The Material Culture of Sanctity (November 2014)
Reading: Katrina Olds, ‘The Ambiguities of the Holy: Authenticating Relics in Seventeenth-Century Spain’, Renaissance Quarterly, 65 (2012), pp. 135-184.*
Tracy Elizabeth Cooper and Marcia B. Hall eds., The Sensuous in the Counter-Reformation Church (Cambridge, 2013).
Sacred Kingship (November 2014)
Reading: Azfar Moin, The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam (1400-1700) (New York, 2012). Available online via SOLO.*
Alan Strathern, ‘Drawing the Veil of Sovereignty: Early Modern Islamic Empires and Understanding Sacred Kingship’, History and Theory, 53 (2014), pp. 79-93.
The Politics of Sanctity (December 2014)
Reading: Peter Lake and Michael Questier, The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom, and the Politics of Sanctity in Early Modern England (London, 2011), especially chapter 3.*
Gillian Ahlgren, Teresa of Avila and the Politics of Sanctity (Ithaca, 1996).
Jesuits and Obedience: A Crossroads in Early Modern Cultural History (January 2015)
Silvia Mostaccio (Louvain)
Living In ‘The Devil’s Other Hell’: A Catholic Minority in Germany C.1600 (February 2015)
Nikolas Funke (Birmingham)
The Discoveries of Portuguese Female Mystics, 1500-1755 (February 2015)
Joana Serrado (Oxford)
Baptismal Requirements and Routine Infanticide in Western Europe, 1500-1800 (March 2015)
Gregory Hanlon (Dalhousie)
Catholic and Protestant Challenges to the Early Modern Papacy (February 2015)
A symposium exploring fear, hatred and opposition to Rome across the early modern confessional divide.
Keynote Lecture by Prof. Alison Shell (UCL): 'Popery, Personification and Satire'.
Speakers: Nina Lamal, Jan Machielsen, Adam Morton, Paul Quinn, Sophie Nicholls, Christian Schneider, Abigail Shinn, and Emma Turnbull.
Revolving Doors? Gallicans, Dévots and Jansenists in Early Seventeenth-Century France (April 2015)
Event Held:
Paper - ‘Revolving doors? Gallicans, Dévots and Jansenists in Early Seventeenth-Century France’.
Professor Joseph Bergin, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester
Catholic Legacies, 1500-1800 (September 2015)
A one-day workshop exploring sources from the Bodleian Collections and other archive and museum holdings that expose Britain's rich Catholic heritage.
