Last update: May 9, 2024
Caleb Abraham (Université de Lausanne): Books and Itineraries: New Perspectives on the Genevan Collège de Rive Before the Academy (1559)
Jack Arnold (Boston University): Noble Autonomy and the Development of Multiconfessionalism in Late Fifteenth Century Moravia. Panel: Conceptualizing Co-existence: Religious Reform and Toleration in the Czech Lands. Co-panelists: Damian Domke, Phillip Haberkern.
Jakub Basista (Jagiellonian University): A fruitful treatise of fasting wherin is declared what ye Christen fast is… Fasting and Humiliation in the Time of the English Reformation: Do We Know Everything?
Peter Benka (Department of Slovak History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava): Languages of Confessional Communities in the Royal Towns of Upper Hungary in the Seventeenth Century
Jan-Andrea Bernhard (Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Universität Zürich): Ulrich Bolt: Ein Reformator und Täufer auf der Flucht. Panel: New Research on Anabaptism
Martin Berntson (University of Gothenburg): Were Muslim Turks Forcibly Baptized in Stockholm in the Seventeenth Century?
Ana Biočić (Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Croatia): The Union of Marča – a Source of Conflict or Cooperation
Mattias Sommer Bostrup (Aarhus University): To Cross the Line: Interconfessionality and Interreligiosity in Early Modern Schleswig-Holstein. Panel: Crossing Confessional and National Boundaries: Religious Encounters and Welfare Institutions in Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. Co-panelists: Rasmus H.C. Dreyer, Sigrid N. Christensen, Tine Reeh (chair).
Valentina Bottanelli (Fondazione per le scienze religiose – Fscire): Cross Confession Contamination in Early Modern China and Dutch Batavia: Justus Heurnius’ Chinese-Latin Compendium Doctrinae Christianae (Bodleian Library, Marsh 456)
Theo Brok (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Revisiting the Emergence and Spread of Anabaptism in the Southern Habsburg Netherlands (1530–1555)
Benedikt Brunner (IEG Mainz): Contesting Sacralities. Native Americans, Puritan Missionaries, and the Fight for a New Sensescape in Colonial New England
Amy Burnett (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA): Erasmus and Reuchlin in the Correspondence Network of German Humanists on the Eve of the Reformation
Stephen Burnett (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA): Luther’s Against the Sabbatarians (1538) and Judaizing Christians in Electoral Saxony
Simon Burton (University of Edinburgh): Reformed Scotism Revisited: The Case of William Ames
Daniele De Camillis (DREST, Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies): Intersecting Worlds: The Pious Schools and Rome’s Jewish Community in the Early Modern Era. Panel: Converting Souls and Conflicting Powers. A Fresh Outlook on the Relationship between Jewish Communities and Ecclesiastical Bodies in Early-Modern Italy: Three Case Studies from Livorno, Rome, and Aeolian Islands. Co-panelists: Silvia Di Giovanna, Andrea Profeta.
Ian Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast): Orthodoxy and Failure in Later Seventeenth Century Franciscan Political Thought: Cardinal Lorenzo Brancati da Lauria (1612–1693) and Angelo Volpi da Montepeloso (d. 1647)
Liliana Castilho (Politecnic University of Viseu/ CITCEM- Oporto University): Cardinal D. Miguel da Silva and the Introduction of Renaissance Aesthetics in Northern Portugal
Massimo Cattaneo (Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II): Natural Earthquakes and Revolutionary “Scourges”: Central Italy in 1799. Round Table: The Environmental Impacts of Early Modern Catholic Domestic Missions: Itineraries, Spiritualities and Nature. Co-speakers: Mattia Corso, Alysée Le Druillenec, Isabel Harvey.
Sze-ting Chow (School of History, Renmin University of China): Dürer and Science: The Reception of the Italian Renaissance in Early Modern Germany
Sigrid Christensen (University of Copenhagen): Pietist Cross-Theologies in the Orphanages in Copenhagen and the Dutchies. Panel: Crossing Confessional and National Boundaries: Religious Encounters and Welfare Institutions in Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. Co-panelists: Matthias Sommer Bostrup, Rasmus H.C. Dreyer, Tine Reeh (chair).
Mattia Corso (Università Roma Tre): Between Devotion and Exploitation: Natural Sites and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Round Table: The Environmental Impacts of Early Modern Catholic Domestic Missions: Itineraries, Spiritualities and Nature. Co-speakers: Massimo Cattaneo, Alysée Le Druillenec, Isabel Harvey.
Antonio Pio Di Cosmo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): The Virgin and her Patronage: an Analysis of Two Typologies of Devotion Productions and their Implications on Visual Culture
Didier Course (Hood College Maryland): Hagiography, Geopolitics, Adventure Novel, or Amorous Tale? A Study on the Arabo-Muslim Motif in French Literature
Maria Craciun (Babeş–Bolyai University of Cluj): Not Entirely a Man’s World: The Impact of the Reformation on the Lives of Early Modern Transylvanian Women
Davide Dainese (University of Bologna | FSCIRE): Between Coexistence and Domination. Pietrino Belli as a Benchmark of an Ongoing Juridico-Political Transformation
Julia Derzsi (Romanian Academy, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities; Arbeitskreis für Siebenbürgische Landeskunde Sibiu): Social Order in the Multi-Ethnical and Multi-Confessional Communities of Southern Transylvania: Town Councils and their Rural Subjects in the Early Modern Period
Yunus Dogan (European University Institute, EUI): A Tale of Two Faiths: When Local Christians Encounter New Christians
Aneke Dornbusch (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn): “wolle uns hiemit iren rat und gutbedunken wissen machen” – The Persecution of Anabaptists as a “Shared Concern” of South German Imperial Cities
Rasmus H.C. Dreyer (University of Copenhagen): Early Modern Danish Hospital Institutions. Cross-confessional Inspirations. Panel: Crossing Confessional and National Boundaries: Religious Encounters and Welfare Institutions in Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein. Co-panelists: Rasmus H.C. Dreyer, Sigrid N. Christensen, Tine Reeh (chair).
Alysée Le Druillenec (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): For a Comparative Environmental Theology of New-France Wendats and French Missionaries. Round Table: The Environmental Impacts of Early Modern Catholic Domestic Missions: Itineraries, Spiritualities and Nature. Co-speakers: Mattia Corso, Massimo Cattaneo, Isabel Harvey.
Paweł Dziwiński (Jagiellonian University of Kraków): Paulus Vladimiri and John of Falkenberg at the Council of Constance, 1415–1417. The Debate that Failed to Shape Modern Natural Law
William Engel (Sewanee, The University of the South): ‘The Wandering Jew’ in the Reformation Allegorical Imagination
Hanna Filipova (University of Gothenburg): Banquet of Chestnuts, Hats Nailed to Heads and Sodomy: Image Transformation of Religious Othering in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe
Antonio Gerace (Università di Bologna | KU Leuven): Sovereign Ordination: Biblical Exegesis of Romans 13 in Renaissance Rome Political Theology
Silvia Di Giovanna (DREST, Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies): Rabbis: Blessed or bien aventuradi? On the Death of Livornese Jews, between Suspicion and Outrage in the City of Nations. Panel: Converting Souls and Conflicting Powers. A Fresh Outlook on the Relationship between Jewish Communities and Ecclesiastical Bodies in Early-Modern Italy: Three Case Studies from Livorno, Rome, and Aeolian Islands. Co-panelists: Daniele De Camillis, Andrea Profeta.
Phillip Haberkern (Boston University): Conceptualizing a Trans-confessional Religious Community: The “Bohemian Church” Across Two Centuries. Panel: Conceptualizing Co-existence: Religious Reform and Toleration in the Czech Lands. Co-panelists: Jack Arnold, Damian Domke.
Joachim Haddad (Aix-Marseille Université): Peregrinatio and Spiritual Pilgrimage in Augustine’s Late Works
Isabel Harvey (Université du Québec à Montréal | Université Catholique de Louvain): Mountains, Forests, and a Lot of Rain: the Impacts of Natural Environment on the Domestic Missions of Calabria during the Seventeenth Century. Round Table: The Environmental Impacts of Early Modern Catholic Domestic Missions: Itineraries, Spiritualities and Nature. Co-speakers: Massimo Cattaneo, Mattia Corso, Alysée Le Druillenec.
Abigail Hayton (University of Oxford): Does Jewish Law Mandate Infant Baptism by Sprinkling? The Perspective of John Lightfoot (1602–75)
Bernhard Holl (Archdiocese Berlin): And the Land Rested for Forty Years: Spanish New Christians at the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century
Andrew Hope (Oxford University): Judaism, Islam, and the Work of William Tyndale
Emilia Hruszowiec (Historical Institute | University of Wrocław): Polish Anti-Jewish Literature in the Attempt to Shape Christian-Jewish Relations (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
Anis Issa (École Pratique des Hautes Études): The Catholics under the Feather of the Coptic Historians, Efforts for Unity or a Conspiracy of Subjugation?
Gábor Ittzés (Debrecen Reformed Theological University): A Tenacious Myth of Authenticity: The Reception History of the Dream of Frederick the Wise
Theis Schønning Johansen (Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen): Christology, Scriptural Interpretation, and Scepticism in Erasmus of Rotterdam. Panel: The Word, Words and the Human Being. Three Case Studies Pointing to the Influence of Rhetoric in Renaissance and Early Modern Times. Co-panelists: Jonas Kjøller Rasmussen, Anna Vind.
Grigori Khislavski (Erfurt University): “Judenherz” and “Judengehirn”. Anti-Semitic Vocabulary of the Early New High German Period
Brandt Klawitter (NLA University College, Bergen, Norway): In or Out? Ulpian’s Understanding of Natural Law and the Wittenberg Reformers
Skirmantas Knieža (Vilnius University): The Purger or The Reconciler: The Mission of the Nobleman in Sixteenth-century Jesuit Literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Jakub Koryl (Jagiellonian University): Muslim-Dressed Greek Philosopher Among his Fellow Christians: Cultural Hybrids, Polyphonies and Luther’s Part in the Aristotelian Tradition
Chrysovalantis Kyriacou (Theological School of the Church of Cyprus): Hilarion Kigalas (Cigala) and the Fortunes of Eastern Orthodoxy in Ottoman Cyprus between Calvinism and Roman Catholicism. Panel: Eastern Orthodoxy between Latin churches after the Reformation. Co-panelist: Graeme Murdock.
Tapio Leinonen (University of Helsinki): Encounters and Experiences Behind Martin Luther’s Political Theology
Urs Leu (Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Universität Zürich): Presentation of the Forthcoming Collection of Sources on the History of Anabaptism in Zurich (1534–1636). Panel: New Research on Anabaptism
Johannes Ljungberg (University of Copenhagen): Generational Dissent in the Lutheran North? Early Adopters of New Platforms in Shifting Media Ecologies, 1700–1774
Diego Lucci (American University in Bulgaria): Transubstantiation, the Trinity, and the Rule of Faith in England under James II
Tomasz Mantyk (KU Leuven | Catholic University of Lublin): Theology of the Eucharist in Erasmus’ and Titelmans’ Paraphrase on John 6
Robert Aleksander Maryks (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland): From the IJssel Valley to the Vistula Valley: Jesuits and Devotio Moderna in the Commonwealth of Poland–Lithuania
Yelena Matusevich (University of Alaska Fairbanks): Amicitia in morte: Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Modern Death Preparation Texts
Sini Mikkola (University of Eastern Finland): Women Encountering Men in the Early Reformation
Graeme Murdock (Trinity College Dublin): Isaac Basire and the Fortunes of Eastern Orthodoxy in Transylvania between Calvinism and Anglicanism. Panel: Eastern Orthodoxy between Latin Churches after the Reformation. Co-panelist: Chrysovalantis Kyriacou.
Radu Nedici (University of Bucharest): “…like Mandarins in China”: Jesuits, the Greek Orthodox, and the Rites Controversy in Early eEghteenth-century East-Central Europe
Octavian-Adrian Negoiță (Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy): Sophronios of Kilis and His Polemic against Purgatory
Nina Niedermeier (University of Augsburg): Fortuna, Providentia and Salvation History – the Book of Esther as a Jewish-Christian Image Subject in Early Modern Venice
João Nunes (Polytechnic University of Viseu; CHSC, University of Coimbra): Save the Enslaved: the Marriage of Enslaved People in Lisbon Between 1612 and 1623
Julia Paduch (University of Wrocław): Indications Dedicated to French Diplomats Regarding Religious Issues during the Thirty Years’ War
Mária Pakucs (N. Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest): The Influence of the Reformation of Johannes Honterus on the Saxon Town Councils in Transylvania
Marco Papasidero (University of Palermo): Religious Encounters and Miraculous Conversions in Early Modern Marian Legends
Philipp Pilhofer (University of Rostock): An Orthodox Patriarch’s Transconfessional Studies at the Lutheran University of Helmstedt: The Academia Iulia and its Only Greek Student Metrophanes Kritopoulos
João Pinheiro da Silva (Central European University): Francisco de Vitoria’s Rejection of Natural Slavery
Martin Pjecha (Centre for Medieval Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague): A Paradoxical Pacifist? Peter Chelčický (d. c. 1460) on Antichristian Politics
Andrea Profeta (DREST, Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies): Tommaso Israel. The cursus honorum of a Converso in the Catholic Hierarchy of Aeolian Islands. Panel: Converting Souls and Conflicting Powers. A Fresh Outlook on the Relationship between Jewish Communities and Ecclesiastical Bodies in Early-Modern Italy: Three Case Studies from Livorno, Rome, and Aeolian Islands. Co-panelists: Silvia Di Giovanna, Daniele De Camillis.
Marta Quatrale (Freie Universität Berlin): Anfechtung/tentatio: Hatred Towards God and Conflicting Emotions as a Criterion to Discern Lutheran Sources?
Jonas Kjøller-Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen): Psychagogics and Meditation: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Sabbati Sanctificatio (1635–38). Panel: The Word, Words and the Human Being. Three Case Studies Pointing to the Influence of Rhetoric in Renaissance and Early Modern Times. Co-panelists: Theis Schønning Johansen, Anna Vind.
Niels Reeh (University of Southern Denmark): The Early Modern Concept of Religion as Translation across the Religious Divide(s)
Jonathan Reid (East Carolina University): How Much did the Development of the French Reformed Communities Depend on Geneva (1553–1563)? Evidence from Their Correspondence and Archival Records. Panel: Reformation-Era Correspondence Networks. Co-panelists: Amy Nelson Burnett, Jan Klok.
Marco Alexandre Ribeiro (Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa): Thinking about Religious Encounters through Gender and Work: a Case Study or the Opening of New Horizons
Gideon Rossouw (Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary): Ministers to the Bride of Christ: The Puritan View of Angels in the Liturgical Setting
Pieter Rouwendal (Theological University of Apeldoorn): Hypothetical Universalism: The Marvelous Modern Misadventures of a Seventeenth-Century Concept
Tadeusz Rubik (University of Warsaw, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”): The Apostolic Letters in the Polish Catholic Leopolita Bible (1561) and its Revised Edition (1575). A Research Project
Illia Rudyk ((University of Wrocław): Begging and Almsgiving: The Wandering Greek Orthodox Clergy in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Patryk M. Ryczkowski (Innsbruck University): Uniate Church between Vilnius and Rome: Josaphat Kuntsevych in the Hagiographic Sources of the Mid-Seventeenth Century
Steffie Schmidt (University of Osnabrück): How to Recognise an Anabaptist. Profiling Anabaptism in Early Modern Dialogue Literature. Panel: New Research on Anabaptism
Avner Shamir (University of Copenhagen): Hebrew as a Field of Christian-Jewish Encounter in the Sixteenth Century
Carl Springer (University of Tennessee Chattanooga): Mark’s Eyes: Albrecht Dürer and Martin Luther
Linda Steele (Carleton University, Ottawa): Fortune Favours the Bold: An Examination of Conflicting Messaging in Chaucer’s Man of Laws Tale
Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig (University of Vechta): Early Protestant and Late Scholastic Roots of the Idea of Tolerance. Members of the School of Salamanca and Fathers of the Reformation on Otherness and Dealing with Strangers
Nicholas Thompson (University of Auckland, Auckland): Semper, ubique et ab omnibus: Using the Church of Ethiopia to Calibrate “Catholicity” in Confessional Europe
Anna Tóth (Hungarian “Széchényi” National Library): The Pammakaristos Church, Constantinople, 1455–1588. A Case Study on Interreligious Contacts
Zsombor Tóth (Centre for Reformation Studies, Budapest): “Les Consolations De L’ame Fidele Contre Les Frayeur De La Mort”. A French Bestseller and its Hungarian Reception in the Eighteenth Century (a Case Study)
Anat Vaturi (Reichman University, University of Haifa): Encountering Neighbors? The Portrayal of Jews in the Calvinist Discourse for Tolerance in Post-Reformation Poland
Anna Vind (University of Copenhagen): Words and Things in the Time of Renaissance and Reformation. Panel: The Word, Words and the Human Being. Three Case Studies Pointing to the Influence of Rhetoric in Renaissance and Early Modern Times. Co-panelists: Theis Schønning Johansen, Jonas Kjøller Rasmussen.
Mikołaj Walkowicz (Jagiellonian University/Research Centre for Armenian Culture in Poland): Between Trade and Religion. Royal Economic Law for Armenians in the Polish Kingdom before 1630
Marcin Wisłocki (University of Wrocław): Between Criticism and Recognition. On Visual Images in Theological Works by Daniel Cramer
Krzysztof Witczak (University of Lodz): Alessandro Guagnini (1538–1614) on Religions and Nations of Eastern Europe
Mirjam Wulff (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The Apocalypsis Nova – Reform Theology on the Eve of the Reformation
