Short Paper Panels

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SHORT PAPER PANELS 1

Thursday May 22, 14:30-16:00

 
Room A-516

Rebellion or Revival? Interconfessional Exchange Across the Early Modern Confessional Divide

Chair: László Kontler (Central European University)

  • Paolo Astorri (University of Copenhagen): Controlling Rebellious Thoughts: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction on Thoughts in Protestant and Catholic Territories
  • Niels de Bruijn (KU Leuven): ‘Rebellious’ Thoughts on Usury in Early Modern Arminianism and Jansenism
 
Room A-415

1525–2025: Beginnings of Higher Education in Reformation Zurich

Chair: Herman Selderhuis (REFORC)

  • Luca Baschera (Universität Zürich): Prophets and Grammarians: On the Purpose and Method of Higher Education in Reformation Zurich
  • Anja Goeing (Universität Zürich): Agents of Practice: Students and Networks at the Schola Tigurina in the 16th Century
  • Urs Leu (Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte der Universität Zürich): Zwingli’s “Hohe Schule” and the Reformed Book Culture in Zurich
 
Room A-419

Perspectives on Early Modern Hungary

Chair:  Zsombor Tóth (Centre for Reformation Studies, Budapest)

  • Peter Benka (Department of Slovak History, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava): Between Loyalty and Rebellion: Upper Hungarian Royal Towns in the 17th Century
  • Brigitta Schvéd (Ludovika University of Public Service, Research Institute for Politics and Government): Hungary as the Bilanx of Europe? Discourse on the European Balance of Power and the Role of Hungary in Early Eighteenth-century English Political Press
  • Dorottya Piroska B. Székely (Eötvös Loránd University – Faculty of Humanities): An Archbishop and his Network – Political and Religious Issues of the Kingdom of Hungary at the End of the Seventeenth Century 
 
Room A-420

Natural Law and Rebellion

Chair: Matthias Riedl (Central European University)

  • Diego Lucci (American University in Bulgaria): The Law of Nature, God’s Law, and the Right to Resist and Revolt in Hobbes and Locke
  • Ian Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast): Jesuit versus Franciscan Understandings of Natural Law, Religion and Rebellion 
 
Room B-421

Framing Rebels from the Outside in England

Chair: Bernward Schmidt (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)

  • Ben Crosby (McGill University): Richard Hooker, Guy de Bres, and the Rhetoric of Anabaptist Violence in Elizabethan England
  • Jake Griesel (George Whitefield College): John Pearson’s Defence of Prayer Book and King in Parliamentarian Cambridge amidst the Early English Civil War (1643)
  • Sofia Degli Espositi (University of Pavia): Loyal Subjects or Rebels? England, the Huguenots, and Political Justification in the Wars of Religion
 
Room C-419

Medieval Continuities of Reform

Chair: Pavel Soukup (Centre for Medieval Studies, Prague)

  • Giovanni Gellera (University of Geneva): Between Rebellion and Continuity: the Case of John Mair and His ‘Network’ (c.1500-1530)
  • Marek Druga (Slovak Academy of Sciences): The Waldensian Campaign against the Saints. On One aspect of Waldensian Theology and Preaching at the Turn of the 14th-15th Centuries
 

SHORT PAPER PANELS 2

Thursday 22 May, 16:30-18:00

 
Room A-516

Perseverance under Persecution

Chair: Violet Soen (KU Leuven)

  • Anna Lerch (University of Bern): Fighting Nuns? Female Resistance during the Reformation
  • Barbara Muller (Universität Hamburg): Perseverance as Rebellion. Johannes Bugenhagen’s Defeat over the Hamburg (Beguine-) Convent opposite St Jacob’s Church
  • Sabine Hiebsch (Theologische Universiteit Utrecht): Aggressions against Luther-an Congregations in the Dutch Republic
 
Room A-415

Resistance, Rebellion, and Sociability: Shaping Communities in Early Modern Hungary

Chair: Zsombor Tóth (Centre for Reformation Studies, Budapest)

  • Márton Zászkaliczky (University of Szeged): Obedience and Disobedience, Self-defence and Rebellion in 16th Century Protestant Political Theology in Hungary
  • Gábor Petneházi (University of Innsbruck): Ethnicism and Rebellion. „Great Replacement” in Protestant Propaganda in 17th Century Hungary from Bocskai to Bethlen
  • József Simon (University of Szeged): From Natural Obligation to Resistance in Miklós Bethlen’s (1642-1714) Political Philosophy
 
Room A-419

Subversive Art

Chair: Cristina Fontcuberta (Universitat de Barcelona)

  • Bonnie Noble (University of North Carolina at Charlotte): Intellectual Rebellion in Hans Holbein’s Ambassadors
  • Willem Peek (The Warburg Institute): The ‘Laienkelch‘ in Hans Mielich’s Codex with 26 Motets by Cipriano de Rore: (Counter-)Reformation and Artistic Rebellion at the Court of Albrecht V of Bavaria
  • Marcin Wisłocki (University of Wrocław): Echoes of Caspar Schwenckfeld’s Theological Views in Early Modern Art
 
Room A-420

European Theologies of Dissent

Chair:  Aneke Dornbusch (Universität Bonn)

  • Christine Kooi (Louisiana State University): Theological Rebellion in 1572 
  • Sarah Killam Crosby (McGill University): To “study in the book of the crucifix”: Katherine Parr’s Theology of the Atonement in The Lamentation of a Sinner 
 
Room B-421

Interconfessional Harmony and its Limits

Chair: Carsten Wilke (Central European University)

  • Clarisse Roche (United Arab Emirates University): Rebelling against Religious Moderation: Georg Eder’s Confessional Challenge to the Habsburg Middle Way in Sixteenth-century Vienna 
  • Przemyslaw A. Lewicki (Makowski Academy of Reformed Theology): Polish Reformed Confession at Colloquium Charitativum 1645: Exploring Polish Reformed Theology in Search of Harmony 
  • Martin Pjecha (Central European University): Politics in Jan Comenius’s Holistic Vision of Coexistence 
 
Room C-419

Humanism: Legacy in Reformation

Chair: Tobias Jammerthal (Institute for Swiss Reformation Studies, University of Zurich)

  • Neil Tarrant (UCL): The Italian Reformation in Exile? Francesco Pucci’s Early Theological Thought
  • Bernward Schmidt (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Late Medieval” or “Catholic” Reform? Johannes Eck and Church Reform in Bavaria
  • Marta Quatrale (Freie Universität Berlin): Clashing Anthropologies and Intellectual Exchange: Humanism and Reformation in Tension
 

SHORT PAPER PANELS 3

Thursday 22 May, 18:15-19:15

 
Room A-516

Female Religiosity of Dissent

Chair: Philipp Pilhofer (Universität Wien)

  • Deirdre Raftery & Ruth Ferris (University College Dublin): Soldiers of Christ and ‘Galloping Girls’: Rebellion, Conformity and Early Modern Influences on Institutes of Women Religious (Nuns) in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries 
  • Emma Gabor: Healers or Heretics? Witchcraft and Christianity in Early Modern Europe
 
Room A-415

Non-Violent Dissidence

Chair: Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig (Universität Vechta)

  • Trevor Brisbin (United Church of Canada): Radical Reformation as Rebellion: Two Anabaptists, Empire, and the Subversion of Religious Hegemony
  • Sonam Dickey (University of Mysore): Silent Resistance: Buddhist Nonviolent Rebellion and Monastic Dissent Against Political and Religious Authority 
 
Room A-419

Nobility and Religious Confrontation

Chair: Ben Crosby (McGill University)

  • Priscilla Bucher (Aix-Marseille Université): Religious Reform or Political Coup? Rethinking the Confrontation between Mary of Guise and the Lords of the Congregation during the Scottish Reformation (1557-1560)
  • Mark Hutchinson (University of Gloucestershire): Christian Political Action and Conceptions of Estate in German and English Ex-changes over the Crisis in the Palatinate, c. 1618-1624
 
Room A-420

Protestantism in Transylvania

Chair: Márton Zászkaliczky (University of Szeged)

  • Maria Craciun (Babes-Bolyai University): The Reformation of the Common Man: Confessional Diversity and Social Strife in Early Modern Transylvania
  • Edit Szegedi (Universitatea Babes-Bolyai): The Forgotten Century and its Many Conflicts: Lutheranism in 17th Century Transylvania 
 
Room B-421

Reformation and Protest in 16th Century Norway

Chair: Steffie Schmidt (Osnabrück University)

  • Sivert Angel (University of Oslo): Theological Elites and Farmers’ Revolts in 16th Century Norway
  • Joar Haga (VID Specialized University): Ecclesial Communication during the Great Nordic War (1700-1721) 
 
Room C-419

History of Ideas in Reformed Theology

Chair: Herman Selderhuis (REFORC)

  • Gideon Rossouw (Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary): The Concept of Consolatio in Antiquity and Early Modern Reformed Theology: a Case Study of the Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
  • Pieter Rouwendal (Theological University Apeldoorn): Calvin’s ‘conversio’ and Calvin’s ‘conversion’
 

SHORT PAPER PANELS 4

Friday 23 May, 09:00-10:30

 
Room: A-516

Peasant Wars and Protestantism in Austria

Chair: Self-chairing

  • Philipp Pilhofer (Universität Wien): Protestantism in Austria in the (Long) 16th Century
  • Robert Rebitsch (University Innsbruck): The Influence of Protestantism on the Peasants’ Uprisings of 1525/26 and 1626 in Austria
  • Leonhard Jungwirth (Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät der Universität Wien): The Reception of the Peasantsʼ Wars in Austrian Protestantism
 
Room B-319

From Ignorance to Insight: Epistemic Consequences of Original Sin from a Cross-Confessional Perspective

Chair: Marta Quatrale (Freie Universität Berlin)

  • Aza Goudriaan (ETF Leuven |PThU): Gisbertus Voetius and Scholastic Views of Ignorance and Sin
  • Linde Van den Eede (KU Leuven): Preaching after the Fall: Jacobus Janssonius (1547-1625) and the Possibility of Knowledge in Seventeenth Century Women’s Convents
  • Jarrick Van der Biest (KU Leuven): The Theologian behind the Philosopher: Libertus Fromondus (1587-1653) on the Cognitive Effects of Original Sin
 
Room A-419

Divine & Human Knowledge in Early Modern Transconfessional Perspectives

Chair: Pieter Rouwendal (Theological University Apeldoorn)

  • Christian Westerink (ETF Leuven | PThU) : “What, Then, Should Be Stated about the Ideas?” The Theory of Divine Ideas in the Loci Theologici of Johann Gerhard (1582-1637)
  • Peter Wijnberger (ETF Leuven | PThU): Conflict or Agreement? Lutheran and Reformed Ideas on Christ’s Omniscience
  • Takayuki Yagi (Aoyama Gakuin University): Diego Álvarez and Synchronic Contingency: Advancing the Dominican Defense Against Molinism
 
Room A-420

Modernity and the Legacy of Reformation

Chair: Matthias Riedl (Central European University)

  • Fabian Sieber (Theologische Fakultät Fulda): A Revolution through Faith – Thomas Müntzer, Theology and the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 
  • Konrad Buzala (The Christian Theological Academy in Warsaw): Reformation and Counter-Reformation Origins of Modernity: Two Opposing Narratives in the Works of Brad S. Gregory and Richard H. Popkin 
  • Roger Whittal (Australian Lutheran College, Adelaide): Yves Congar on “True and False Reform” 
 
Room B-421

New Perspectives on Philipp Melanchthon

Chair: Benedikt Brunner (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena)

  • Brandt Klawitter (NLA University College): Sex and Self-defense: The Surprising Significance of the Natural Affects in Reformation Wittenberg
  • Jan van de Kamp (Theological University Apeldoorn): Reformation, Education and Rhetoric: Declamations at Wittenberg University, 1519-1560 and the Role of Philipp Melanchthon 
  • Christian Neddens (Europäische Melanchthon-Akademie, Bretten): Rebels – or Not? Cranach’s ‘Judith’ and Melanchthon’s ‘Confessio Augustana’ and the Role of ‘fiducia’ in Religion and Politics
 
Room C-419

Marriage, Family, and Dissent

Chair: Sabine Hiebsch (Theologische Universiteit Utrecht)

  • Aneke Dornbusch (Universität Bonn): A Female Revolt in Augsburg? The Curious Case of Katharina Vöglin
  • Tomasz Karol Mantyk (UMK Toruń (Poland) | KU Leuven): Virginity, Marriage and Divorce in Erasmus’ and Titelmans’ Paraphrases of the New Testament
 

SHORT PAPER PANELS 5

Friday May 23, 15:00-16:00

 
Room A-516

Commemoration in Lutheranism

Chair: Tobias Jammerthal (Institute for Swiss Reformation Studies, University of Zurich)

  • Arturo Massa (University of Bari Aldo Moro): Hagiography of Rebellion. The New Martyrs of the Reformation against Catholic Idolatry in the Sixteenth Century
  • Gábor Ittzés (Debrecen Reformed Theological University): The Death of Frederick the Wise and the Birth of the Lutheran Funeral Sermon
 
Room A-415

A Sublime “Heterodox” Voice? New Perspectives on Andreas Osiander (1496-1552)

Chair: Christian Neddens (Europäische Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten)

  • Ruth Atherton (University of South Wales): Rebel with a Cause: Andreas Osiander and Pastoral Ministry in Nuremberg, 1522-1548 
  • Benedikt Brunner (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena): Christ in me. The Pastoral Dimension of Osiander’s Controversial Christology
 
Room A-419

Rebellion: Causes and Legitimacy

Chair: Jan Hennings (Central European University

  • Stanisław Rabiej (University of Warsaw) (in French): The Long-lasting Socio-religious Effects of the Battle of the “White Mountain” (1620) in Bohemia. Paper in French
  • Luke O’Connel (Georgetown University): Just Rebels: An Analysis of Just War Theory in the Context of Religious Conflict in 17th Century Ireland 
 
Room A-420

Thought and Agency in Modern Protestantism

Chair: Matthias Riedl (Central European University)

  • Katharina Opalka (Faculty of Protestant Theology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn): Power in the Protestant Church in Light of the ForuM-Study
  • Jakub Koryl (Jagiellonian University, Krakow): The Responsibility for Philosophy in the Encounter with Theology: A Lutheran Alternative Take on Philosophy 
 
Room B-421

Rebels or Innovators? Thinkers in Early Modern Christianity (Part I)

Chair: Tijana Krstić (Central European University)

  • Dario Gurashi: Dissimulandi nescius: Agrippa and Nicodemism
  • Noel Putnik (Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts): Homo Integer in a World of Lies: Cornelius Agrippa on Corporeality and Knowledge
 
Room C-419

The Influence of Prophecy in Reform

Chair: Phillip Haberkern (Boston University)

  • Özge Terzi Yazici (Marmara University): Girolamo Savonarola: A Contrarian Voice in the Early Modern Period and a Pioneer of Reform
  • Marco Giardini (independent scholar): (Pseudo-)Joachim and the Call to Church Reform in Germany: Different Appropriations of Joachimite Propheticism at the Beginning of the Reformation
 

SHORT PAPER PANELS 6

Friday May 23, 16:30-18:00

 
 
Room A-516

New Directions in Luther Studies

Chair: Gábor Ittzés (Debrecen Reformed Theological University)

  • Mei-Hsin Chen (University of Navarra): Martin Luther’s Stance on Religious Images: A Moderate Approach to Iconoclasm 
  • Tapio Leinonen (University of Helsinki | University of Eastern Finland): Responding to the Revolts: Martin Luther on Masculinity and Leadership
  • Yang Meng (University of Münster): “Faith in Liang-Zhi” and “Faith in Christ” — A Comparison of Wang Yangming’s and Martin Luther’s Thoughts on “Faith” 
 
Room A-415

Revolution/Revolt/Rebellion: Theory and Practice in Early Modern Eastern Europe

Chair: Matthias Riedl (Central European University)

  • Stefaniia Demchuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv): Baroque as Rebellion: The Politics and Iconography of Status and Power in Early Seventeenth-century Ukraine
  • Hanna Filipova (University of Gothenburg) and Erik Zitser (Duke University): “Bacchus’ Ecclesiastical State”: Offensive Political Humor and the Formation of Peter the Great’s Counter-Court
  • Svitlana Potapenko (Goethe University Frankfurt | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): The ‘Revolution’ of 1762, Kyrylo Rozumovsky, and the Fate of the Hetmanate
  • Volodymyr Sklokin (Ukrainian Catholic University | IAS CEU): The Late 18th-Century Justifications of the Revolt Against Tyranny: The Case of Roman Tsebrykov
 
Room A-419

Revolutionary Hussites

Chair: Martin Pjecha (Central European University

  • Marie Skarpova (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague): Rebellion by the Word of God: Jan Hus’s Discrediting of the Authority of the Council in His Letters 
  • Dominik Tóth (Military History Institute and Museum): Hussites, Partisans, Guerillas – Analysis of Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan in the Context of Hussite Wars 
  • Phillip Haberkern (Boston University): From Movement to Church: Bohemian Reflections on Ending a Revolution
 
Room A-420

Pauline Exegesis in the 16th Century

Chair: Pieter Rouwendal (Theological University Apeldoorn)

  • Jeb Ralston (University of Geneva | Trinity International University): Original Sin and the Catholic Reformation Renouncing and Reclaiming Erasmus’s Reading of Romans 5:12
  • Noemi Schürmann (University of Zurich): Saved by Marriage? Katharina Schütz Zell and Female Marital Agency in the Early Reformation
  • Ueli Zahnd (Institut d’histoire de la Réformation, University of Geneva): Huldrych Zwingli’s Doctrine of Predestination
 
Room B-421

Rebels or Innovators? Thinkers in Early Modern Christianity (Part II)

Chair: Noel Putnik (Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

  • Monika Frazer-Imregh (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary): Rebellion Against Late Scholastic Philosophy – Ficino’s Return to Augustine and Neoplatonic Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul
  • Endre Ádám Hamvas (HUN-REN RCH |  Moravcsik Gyula Institute): Hannibal Rosseli’s Pymander: the Corpus Hermeticum and the Catholic Revival
  • Maria Luísa Jacquinet (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa): Echoes of the Reformation in the Catholic Refugee Communities in the 16th and 17th Centuries Portugal: a Case Study
 
Room C-419

Religious Dissent and Religious Policy in France

Chair: Christine Kooi (Louisiana State University)

  • Nicolò Di Dio (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies): The “Exhortation aux Princes” and the Struggle for Religious Pacifi-cation in France: the Rise of Civil Tolerance
  • Lorenzo Paoli (Institut d’histoire de la Réformation, Université de Genève): Sources and Degrees of Resistance in Huguenot Monar-chomach Treatises (1574–1579)
  • Seraphine Nzue-Agbadou (Charleston Southern University): The Choice between Recon-version-Death-or Exile: How Religious Violence Disrupted the Lives of French Huguenots in Some Southern Regions of France (1500-1600
 

SHORT PAPER PANELS 7

SATURDAY MAY 24, 09:00-10:30

 
Room A-516

Endangered or Dangerous Christianity? Rebellion and Theologies of Resistance in the Long Reformation

Chair: Steffie Schmidt (Osnabrück University)

  • Benedikt Brunner (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena): A Dangerous Man with a Dangerous Book? Melchior Hoffman and the Anabaptist Dominion of Münster
  • Damian Domke (University of Heidelberg, History Department): Against Adversaries, Tyrants and the Anti-christ. Amandus Polanus (1561-1610), his Political Calvinism and the Uprising in Opava at the Beginning of the 17th Century
  • Yasmin Vetter: The Marian Exile: A Peaceful Resistance?
 
Room A-415

Authority and Dissent in Poland-Lithuania

Chair: Martin Pjecha (Central European University)

  • Milda Kvizikeviciute (National Museum of Lithuania): Religious Aid Across Borders: How Lithuanian Protestants Sought Support in the 17th Century
  • Anat Vaturi (University of Haifa): To Rebel or not to Rebel? Protestant Responses to Catholic Violence in Reformation Cracow
  • Jakub Wolak (Polish Academy of Sciences): Between Contract and Covenant, or a Theologico-Political Solution to the Riddle of the Lubomirski Rebellion (1665–66)
 
Room A419

New Perspectives on Pietism

Chair: Jan van de Kamp (Theological University Apeldoorn)

  • Anna Szyrwińska-Hörig (Universität Vechta): Philipp Jakob Spener‘s Struggle Against Thomas Hobbes‘ Absolutism, or What Do We Know About the Philosophical Origins of Pietist Individualism
  • Doron Avraham (Bar Ilan University): Rebellion within Limits: German Pietism and the Contestation of Established Order
  • Konstantin Anikin (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg): Rolle der Bogomilen im Denken der Pietisten und der “lutherischen Orthodoxie”. Paper in German
 
Room A-420

Art as Propaganda

Chair: Maria Craciun (Babes-Bolyai University)

  • Cristina Fontcuberta (Universitat de Barcelona): Image, Religion and Rebellion. Use and Absence of Combative Art in Early Modern Catalonia
  • Andrew Hope (University of Oxford): Echoes of the Oldcastle Revolt in the N-Town Plays: Jesus as Heretic and Traitor
  • Maria Kazimiera Staniszewska (independent scholar, Kraków, Poland): “Occultatae per Lutheranos et Hussitas”. The Image of Protestant Presence in the Canonical Visitations from Spiš Region (1655–1712). Between Propaganda and (Possible) Realities
 
Room B-421

Persecution, Mission, and Dialogue

Chair: Katalin Szende (Central European University)

  • Bernhard Holl (University of Potsdam): Defeated, yet Victorious: the Toledo Rebellion of 1449 and the Lasting Effects of its Pure-Blood Agenda
  • Avner Shamir (University of Copenhagen): Faith or Law: Sixteenth-century Christian, Jewish, and Christian-Jewish Disputations
  • Carlos Piccone-Camere (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú): The Capuchin Rebellion: Challenges of Living the Franciscan Rule in South American Missions
 
Room C-419

Authority and Dissent in Scandinavia

Chair: Joar Haga (VID Specialized University)

  • Andreas Mazetti (The Newman Institute, Uppsala): Tracing the Roots of Tyranny: Explanations in the Annales Ecclesiastici for the deposition of Christian II of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
  • Laura-Marie Mork (Universität Osnabrück): Good Authority, Bad Authority – Discourse on Authority in the First Half of Gustav Vasas Reign
  • Georg Stenborg (Stockholm University): Johannes Messenius and the Dacke Uprising in 16th-century Sweden
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