Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar - Oxford Talks

Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

A joint graduate seminar of the Faculties of History and Theology & Religion, University of Oxford

The seminar takes place in the Gibbs Room, Keble College (in the basement of the Warden’s Lodging: access via the main entrance of the College and Porters’ Lodge, Keble Road), 5.00, Thursdays. The paper is followed by refreshments.

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Judith Maltby , Diarmaid MacCulloch , Sarah Mortimer , Grant Tapsell
Timing: Thursdays at 5pm

Thursday 27 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - 'Lancelot Andrewes' Reformation Inheritance: The Only Way Is Essex'
Peter McCullough (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - 'The Ranter Mood: Thinking about Theology and Emotions in Regicidal England'
Leif Dixon (Regent’s Park, Oxford)

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - ‘A Laudian in Ulster: The Irish career of Jeremy Taylor, 1658-1667’
Colin Armstrong (Queen’s University, Belfast)

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - 'Welfare and the Kirk: Poor Relief in the Reformed Church in Scotland, 1560-1650'.
John McCallum (Nottingham Trent University)

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - 'Churchwardens, Sidemen and Scavengers: Political Agency, Lay Governance, and Religious Discipline in Elizabethan London.'
Lucy Kaufman (Keble College, Oxford), Lucy Kaufman (Keble College, Oxford)

Thursday 1 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - ‘Debating before Great Britain¹s Solomon: the perspective of the 'plaintiffs' at the Hampton Court Conference of 1604.’
Mark Byford (Independent Scholar)

Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - ‘Tolerance and History Writing in Reformation England.’
Susan Royal (University of Durham)

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - ‘The Religion of John Milton’
Nicholas McDowell (University of Exeter)

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - The “Presbyterian story” in seventeenth-century Ireland
Dr Robert Armstrong (Trinity College Dublin)

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - Reforming English drama and the staging of scripture
Dr Elisabeth Dutton

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - English Puritans and Swiss Pietists: a relationship across revolution, 1634-1674
Dr Vivienne Larminie (History of Parliament Trust)

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - ‘“This Unparraleled Unsurpation”: ecclesiastical patronage under Oliver Cromwell c.1654-1660’.
Dr Rebecca Warren

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - ‘A High Road to Reformation? Religion and the Church in England, from the 1450s to the 1530s’
Prof. John Watts (Corpus Christi College)

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - ‘“The Mountaines did serve for their Refuge”: 1650s Wales as a refuge for Anglican clergy’
Dr Sarah Ward Clavier (University of the West of England)

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - ‘Heretics and Believers: writing a history of the English Reformation’
Prof. Peter Marshall (University of Warwick)

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - 'Words on the walls: texts in post-Reformation parish churches'
TBA

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