Accepted Short Papers

Carsten Bach-Nielsen (Aarhus University): Visual Ecclesiology? Tablets of Pastors – a Significant Visual and Material Message in Post-Reformation Lutheran Churches

Jakub Basista (Jagiellonian University): A Remarkable Revelation of the Wandrings of the Church of England in Idolatry, Superstition, and Ceremonies… 

Jan-Andrea Bernhard (Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Universität Zürich): The Book as a ‘Precious Commodity’ 

Gábor Bradács (independent scholar): Spiritual Presence and Historical Polemic: Eucharistic Theology in Early Modern Reformed Church Historiography 

Vanessa Chaise-Brun (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne): The Materiality of the Cult of King Charles the Martyr: Blurring Boundaries between Catholicism and Protestantism  

Matthias Ebejer (Archdiocese of Malta): Hospitallers and the Paradox of Materiality 

William Engel (Sewanee: The University of the South): John Day’s Protestant Renovation of the English Catechism 

Michael Lapp (Univ. Frankfurt Main): Die hessischen Verbesserungspunkte von 1605 – Eine Theologie der Materialität 

Urs Leu (Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Universität Zürich): The Book as Symbol, Collector’s Item and Companion in 16th-Century Zurich 

Matthew McDaniel (Westminster Seminary California): The Beauty and Dignity of Our Bodies: Amandus Polanus’ Aesthetic Anthropology 

Michael Mleczek (Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków; Archdiocese of Kraków): Materiality as Confessional Argument: Robert Bellarmine on Saints, Relics, and Images after Trent  

Bonnie Noble (University of North Carolina at Charlotte): The Theme of Melancholy in the Paintings of Cranach the Elder

Petr Pavlas (IP CAS, Prague / University of West Bohemia, Pilsen): God and Man, Soul and Body, Substance and Accidents: Leibniz on the Incarnation, Psychophysical Problem, and the Eucharis

Markus Rathey (Yale University): The Materiality of Music in the Early Reformation

Martin Romatowski (University of Oslo): Condemned Objects: Immoral Materiality at the Bonfires of Fifteenth-Century Italy 

Rudolf Šimek (Department of Art History, Charles University, Prague): From Trent to the Long Nineteenth Century: Seals, Efficacy, and Traces of Use in Pilgrimage Copies of Our Lady of Svatá Hora 

Jozsef Simon (University of Szeged): Active Shadows. Bálint Sárközi’s dilemmas concerning Ficino’s and Bruno’s Concepts of Matter from 1588 

David Smith (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main): Martin Luther as Freedom Fighter? The Reformer’s Legacy in the Struggle for an Independent Namibia 

Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig (Universität Vechta): Material Objects Serving Theology: Johann Conrad Dannhauer and the Origins of Illustrative Didactic Narrative in Lutheran Theology

Mary Whittingdale (University of Cambridge): Fabricating Religious Reform in 17th Century England 

Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College Oxford): The Performance of Prayer in the English Reformation