2 June 2017
9.30am: Opening remarks (Stefan Bauer)
9.40am: Panel 1: Initial impact
Chair: Richard Rex (Cambridge)
Marie Barral-Baron (Besançon): The historical argument in the debates between Lutherans and Catholics in the first half of the sixteenth century
David Bagchi (Hull): “O Constance, be strong upon my side!” Contesting the Council in the Reformation, c. 1520-c.1550
11.00am: Panel 2: Church histories
Chair: Simon Ditchfield (York)
Stefan Bauer (York): Pontien Polman re-imagined
Harald Bollbuck (Göttingen): Searching for the true religion: the Church History of the “Magdeburg Centuries” between critical methods and confessional polemics
Giuseppe Guazzelli (Palermo): Isaac Casaubon’s attack on Cesare Baronio
2pm: Panel 3: England, France and the Netherlands
Chair: Stefan Bauer (York)
Jean-Louis Quantin (EPHE, Paris): The saint, the pope, and the emperor: the deposition of John Chrysostom in confessional polemics
Jan Machielsen (Cardiff): Pope Joan on the frontlines: the unknown debate between Egbert Grim and Johannes Stalenus in the 1630s
Bethany Hume (York): The Albigensian heresy in confessional polemic: Jacques-Benigne Bossuet’s “Histoire des variations des églises protestantes” (1688) and the response of Huguenot exiles
3.40pm: Panel 4: Bibles
Chair: Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge)
Debora Shuger (UCLA): The polemics of the paratext and the English Bible
Kevin Killeen (York): The eye-sore of the Bible: Catholic Radicalism
Nicholas Hardy (Cambridge): Biblical criticism and confessional controversy: the text of the Old Testament in the Reformed and Catholic traditions
5.30pm: Roundtable: New perspectives on the history of religious polemics
Euan Cameron (Union Theological Seminary, NYC, chair), Anthony Milton (Sheffield), Richard Rex, Simon Ditchfield, Debora Shuger, Katrin Ettenhuber, Stefan Bauer
6.15pm: Close of the conference with a drinks reception (sponsored by CREMS) followed by a meal for invited speakers.
The Patrides lecture by Euan Cameron, “World History and God’s Grand Design: the historical imagination in the Middle Ages and Reformation”, will take place on 1 June at 6pm. All are invited to this public lecture. Location: Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, YO10 5DD.
Conference registration for guests costs £12 or £10 for students (to cover lunch and coffee breaks), spaces are limited. Guests can register via email: stefan.bauer@york.ac.uk.