Accepted Short Papers

Antonino Amato (University of Palermo/DREST): The Northen Nave: Simony and Ecclesiastical Patronage in the Elizabethan Consistory Court of York

Arne Bugge Amundsen (University of Oslo, Norway): A Lutheran Pulpit in an Age of Crisis. Panel: Staging the Lutheran pastor: Case studies Saxony and Norwa

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’. Panel: The Book as Collector’s Item and Symbol in the Swiss Reformation / Das Buch als Sammlungsgegenstand und Symbol in der Schweizer Reformation

Thomas Betteridge (Brunel University of London): Reformation Drama and Allegory. Panel: Early Modern Literature and Religion: Dramatic Adaptations of Scriptural Affect

Ragnhild M Bø (University of Oslo): ‘All that Arachne’s Art Produces Fully’: Netherlandish Poet-Painters on Textile Metaphors. Panel: Text, Textile, and Theology

Andrii Bovgyria (University of Cambridge): Heretics and Blasphemers: Crimes against the Orthodox Church in Muscovy and the Ukrainian Hetmanate (17th – Early 18th c.). Panel: Crime, Power and Religious Order in 17th–18th-Century Eastern Europe

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  

Dr. Jan Čížek (University of Ostrava): Massa Mosaica: Creation and Matter in Early Modern Mosaic Physics

Ian Clary (Colorado Christian University): “Congenial Man of Conviction”: James Ussher (1581–1656) and Early Modern Irenicism 

Martin Deutsch: Temporary or Permanent? Materiality and Imagery in the Jesuit Ephemeral Displays

Damian Domke (Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften): Rethinking Olevianus on Justification: Heidelberg, Piscator, and Reformed Diversity

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 

Roberta Falcetta (University of the Republic of San Marino): “The Zimarra and the Cassock”. Church Asylum and Jurisdictional Conflicts in the Austrian Habsburg Kingdom of Naples (1722) 

Hanna Filipova:  “He is fornicating and does not even consider it a sin”: The Lexicon of Lèse‑Majesté Cases Concerning Peter the Great’s Alleged Same‑Sex Relations. Panel: Crime, Power and Religious Order in 17th–18th-Century Eastern Europe

Karina R. Fischer (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen): Splendour and Restraint: Stage Objects, Costumes, and Christian Materiality in Sixteenth-Century Esther Dramas 

Maria Kazimiera Staniszewska: ‘Crucifixes and the Muscovite image on the wall’. Religious Artworks in the Households of the 17th Century Kraków

Tímea Nemesné Kis (University of Tokaj): Places of Saints in Churches. Interior Design Solutions for the Placement of Relics in the Early Modern Period 

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. Panel: The Book as Collector’s Item and Symbol in the Swiss Reformation / Das Buch als Sammlungsgegenstand und Symbol in der Schweizer Reformation

Jennifer Lewin (University of Haifa): Dreaming of the Bible in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry 4. Panel: Early Modern Literature and Religion: Dramatic Adaptations of Scriptural Affect

Walentyna Łoś (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski): Materiality and Church Authority in the Development of Uniate Identity in the Late 18th Century: The Church Interior in the Right-Bank Ukraine. Panel: Crime, Power and Religious Order in 17th–18th-Century Eastern Europe

Tomasz Mantyk (Nicolaus Copernicus Univeristy of Toruń/KU Leuven): Relics, Images, and Votive Gifts: Materiality of Renaissance  Miracle Stories from Poland

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

Peter Opitz (University of Zurich): Ulrich Zwingli’s De providentia: Theology or Philosophy?

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. Panel: Embodied Representations of the Metaphysical and Supernatural in Early Modern Non-Conformist Lutheranism

Svitlana Potapenko (NationalAcademy of Sciences of Ukraine/Goethe University Frankfurt am Main): What Did They Steal? Materiality of the Koliivshchyna Rebellion in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1768). Panel: Crime, Power and Religious Order in 17th–18th-Century Eastern Europe

Oksana Prokopyuk (National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”/Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main): Donation and Commemoration: Making the Kyivan Orthodox Tradition in the Early Modern Period. Panel: Religious Traditions in Materiality in Eastern Europe

Tarald Rasmussen (University of Oslo):  Staging the Lutheran pastor: Two 16th Century Saxon Pulpits. Panel: Staging the Lutheran pastor: Case studies Saxony and Norwa

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

Jacob Rhodes (Boston University School of Theology): Christ is All in All: A Post-Reformation Lutheran Understanding of Christ’s Omnipresence

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

Freya Sierhuis (University of York): “Vondel’s King David in Exile and King David Restored: Psalm Culture and Embodied Performance”. Panel: Early Modern Literature and Religion: Dramatic Adaptations of Scriptural Affect

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 

Nataliia Sinkevych (University of Leipzig): Peter Mohyla and the Cultures of Remembrance in Eastern Europe. Panel: Religious Traditions in Materiality in Eastern Europe

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

Jillian Snyder (University of Notre Dame): Apocalyptic Laughter: The Materiality of Scorn and the Unveiling of the Stage Puritan. Panel: Early Modern Literature and Religion: Dramatic Adaptations of Scriptural Affect

Mattias Sommer Bostrup (Aarhus University): Johannes Wiedewelt’s Historical Park at Jægerspris: Religion and Patriotism in Enlightenment Denmark 

Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig (Universität Vechta): Material Objects Serving Theology: Johann Conrad Dannhauer and the Origins of Illustrative Didactic Narrative in Lutheran Theology. Panel: Embodied Representations of the Metaphysical and Supernatural in Early Modern Non-Conformist Lutheranism

Stefan Weise (Bergische Universität Wuppertal): Using Homer in Confessional Strife: the Case of Philip Melanchthon and Laurentius Rhodoman. Panel: Classical Figures in Confessional Speech

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  

Yuri Zazuliak (University of Leipzig): Charters as Material Bearers of the Ecclesiastical Orthodox Tradition in Galicia (Red Ruthenia) during the 15th-18th Centuries. Panel: Religious Traditions in Materiality in Eastern Europe