SHORT PAPER PANELS 1
Tuesday 14 May, 15:45-17:15
Monumental Theatre
New Research on Anabaptism
Chair: Herman Selderhuis (REFORC)
- Urs Leu (Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Universität Zürich): Presentation of the Forthcoming Collection of Sources on the History of Anabaptism in Zurich (1534–1636)
- Jan-Andrea Bernhard (Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, Universität Zürich): Ulrich Bolt: Ein Reformator und Täufer auf der Flucht
- Steffie Schmidt (University of Osnabrück): How to Recognise an Anabaptist: Profiling Anabaptism in Early Modern Dialogue Literature
Room 1 “Ahl al-Kitāb”
Converting Souls and Conflicting Powers. A Fresh Outlook on the Relationship between Jewish Communities and Ecclesiastical Bodies in Early Modern Italy
Chair: Fabrizio D’Avenia (University of Palermo)
- 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
- 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
- Andrea Profeta (DREST – Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies): Tommaso Israel. The cursus honorum of a Converso in the Catholic Hierarchy of the Aeolian Islands
Room 2 “Ex Directorate”
Reforms and Breaks: Continuity and Discontinuity between the Late Middle Ages and the Eve of Modernity
Chair: Wim François (KU Leuven)
- Yelena Matusevich (University of Alaska Fairbanks): Amicitia in morte: Continuity and Discontinuity in Early Modern Death Preparation Texts
- 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
- Mirjam Wulff (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The Apocalypsis Nova – Reform Theology on the Eve of the Reformation
Room 3 “Theresianum”
Greek Orthodoxy between Transconfessional Studies, Polemics, and Interreligious Contacts
Chair: Antonio Carluccio (DREST | University of Calabria | FSCIRE)
- 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
- Octavian-Adrian Negoiță (Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy): Sophronios of Kilis and His Polemic against Purgatory
- Anna Tóth (Hungarian “Széchényi” National Library): The Pammakaristos Church, Constantinople, 1455–1588: A Case Study on Interreligious Contacts
Room 4 “Ahavah”
Between Coexistence, Dissent, and the Search for Harmony
Chair: Jan Loop (University of Copenhagen)
- 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
- Martin Berntson (University of Gothenburg): Were Muslim Turks Forcibly Baptized in Stockholm in the Seventeenth Century
- Johannes Ljungberg (Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen): Generational Dissent in the Lutheran North? Early Adopters of New Platforms in Shifting Media Ecologies, 1700–1774
SHORT PAPER PANELS 2
Wednesday 15 May, 10:00-11:30
Monumental Theatre
[ROUNDTABLE] The Environmental Impacts of Early Modern Catholic Domestic Missions: Itineraries, Spiritualities and Nature
[no chair]
- Massimo Cattaneo (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”): Natural Earthquakes and Revolutionary “Scourges”: Central Italy in 1799
- 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
- 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
- Alysée Le Druillenec (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): For a Comparative Environmental Theology of New-France Wendats and French Missionaries
Room 1 “Ahl al-Kitāb”
The Multiple Facets of Political Theology in the Renaissance and Reformation Era
Chair: Davide Dainese (University of Bologna | FSCIRE)
- Antonio Gerace (Università di Bologna | KU Leuven): Sovereign Ordination: Biblical Exegesis of Romans 13 in Renaissance Rome Political Theology
- 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
- Tapio Leinonen (University of Helsinki): Encounters and Experiences Behind Martin Luther’s Political Theology
Room 2 “Ex Directorate”
The Word, Words and the Human Being. Three Case Studies Pointing to the Influence of Rhetoric in Renaissance and Early Modern Times
Chair: Zsombor Tóth (Centre for Reformation Studies, Budapest)
- Anna Vind (University of Copenhagen): Words and Things in the Time of Renaissance and Reformation
- Jonas Kjøller-Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen): Psychagogics and Meditation: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Sabbati Sanctificatio (1635–38)
- Theis Schønning Johansen (University of Copenhagen): Christology, Scriptural Interpretation, and Scepticism in Erasmus of Rotterdam
Room 3 “Theresianum”
Eastern Orthodoxy between Latin Churches and the Reformation
Chair: Gianmarco Braghi (University of Palermo | FSCIRE)
- 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
- Graeme Murdock (Trinity College Dublin): Isaac Basire and the Fortunes of Eastern Orthodoxy in Transylvania between Calvinism and Anglicanism
- Illia Rudyk (University of Wrocław): Begging and Almsgiving: The Wandering Greek Orthodox Clergy in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Room 4 “Ahavah”
The Debate on Natural Law in the Early Modern Era
Chair: Ian Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast)
- 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
- Brandt Klawitter (NLA University College, Bergen): In or Out? Ulpian’s Understanding of Natural Law and the Wittenberg Reformers
- João Pinheiro da Silva (Central European University): Francisco de Vitoria’s Rejection of Natural Slavery
Room 5 “Concinnitas”
New Research on Reformed Theology
Chair: Herman Selderhuis (REFORC)
- Joachim Haddad (Aix-Marseille Université): Peregrinatio and Spiritual Pilgrimage in Augustine’s Late Works
- Simon Burton (University of Edinburgh): Reformed Scotism Revisited: The Case of William Ames
- Pieter Rouwendal (Theological University of Apeldoorn): Hypothetical Universalism: The Marvellous Modern Misadventures of a Seventeenth-Century Concept
SHORT PAPER PANELS 3
Wednesday 15 May, 12:00-13:30
Monumental Theatre
Anti-Semitism and Stereotypes about Jews in the Reformation Era
Chair: Wim François (KU Leuven)
- William Engel (Sewanee, The University of the South): ‘The Wandering Jew’ in the Reformation Allegorical Imagination
- Grigori Khislavski (Erfurt University): “Judenherz” and “Judengehirn”. Anti-Semitic Vocabulary of the Early New High German Period
- Emilia Hruszowiec (Historical Institute/University of Wrocław): Polish Anti-Jewish Literature in the Attempt to Shape Christian-Jewish Relations (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
Room 1 “Ahl al-Kitāb”
Reformation-Era Correspondence Networks
Chair: Graeme Murdock (Trinity College Dublin)
- Amy Burnett (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA): Erasmus and Reuchlin in the Correspondence Network of German Humanists on the Eve of the Reformation
- 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
Room 2 “Ex Directorate”
Imagining and Reimagining Aesthetics and Art in the Renaissance and Reformation
Chair: Aleksandra Lipińska (University of Cologne)
- Liliana Castilho (Politecnic University of Viseu/ CITCEM- Oporto University): Cardinal D. Miguel da Silva and the Introduction of Renaissance Aesthetics in Northern Portugal
Room 3 “Theresianum”
Conflict, Cooperation, and the Standards of Catholicity in the Confessional Mediterranean
Chair: Giacomo Favaretto (DREST | University of Palermo | FSCIRE)
- Ana Biočić (Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Croatia): The Union of Marča – a Source of Conflict or Cooperation
- Nicholas Thompson (University of Auckland, Auckland): Semper, ubique et ab omnibus: Using the Church of Ethiopia to Calibrate “Catholicity” in Confessional Europe
- Anis Issa (École Pratique des Hautes Études): The Catholics under the Feather of the Coptic Historians, Efforts for Unity or a Conspiracy of Subjugation?
Room 4 “Ahavah”
Crossing Confessional and National Boundaries: Religious Encounters and Welfare Institutions in Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein
Chair: Tine Reeh (University of Copenhagen)
- Mattias Sommer Bostrup (Aarhus University): To Cross the Line: Interconfessionality and Interreligiosity in Early Modern Schleswig-Holstein
- Rasmus H.C. Dreyer (University of Copenhagen): Early Modern Danish Hospital Institutions. Cross-confessional Inspirations
- Sigrid Christensen (University of Copenhagen): Pietist Cross-Theologies in the Orphanages in Copenhagen and the Dutchies
Room 5 “Concinnitas”
Religious Otherness and Cultural Reception in Early Modern Europe
Chair: Ivana Panzeca (University of Palermo | FSCIRE)
- Jakub Koryl (Jagiellonian University): Muslim-Dressed Greek Philosopher Among his Fellow Christians: Cultural Hybrids, Polyphonies and Luther’s Part in the Aristotelian Tradition
- 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
- Andrew Hope (Oxford University): Judaism, Islam, and the Work of William Tyndale
SHORT PAPER PANELS 4
Wednesday 15 May, 17:50-19:20
Monumental Theatre
Gender and Religious Othering in the Early Modern Era
Chair: Hanna Filipova (University of Gothenburg)
- Sini Mikkola (University of Eastern Finland): Women Encountering Men in the Early Reformation
- 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
- 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
Room 1 “Ahl al-Kitāb”
Conceptualising Coexistence: Religious Reform and Toleration in the Czech Lands
Chair: Steffie Schmidt (University of Osnabrück)
- Phillip Haberkern (Boston University): Conceptualizing a Trans-confessional Religious Community: The “Bohemian Church” Across Two Centuries
- Jack Arnold (Boston University): Noble Autonomy and the Development of Multiconfessionalism in Late Fifteenth Century Moravia
Room 2 “Ex Directorate”
Biblical Exegesis, Liturgy, and Soteriology in Catholic and Reformed Milieus
Chair: Antonio Gerace (Università di Bologna | KU Leuven)
- Gideon Rossouw (Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary): Ministers to the Bride of Christ: The Puritan View of Angels in the Liturgical Setting
- Tomasz Mantyk (KU Leuven | Catholic University of Lublin): Theology of the Eucharist in Erasmus’ and Titelmans’ Paraphrase on John 6
Room 3 “Theresianum”
The Encounter between Christianity and Judaism in the Wake of Early Modernity
Chair: Réka Újlaki-Nagy (Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest)
- Avner Shamir (University of Copenhagen): Hebrew as a Field of Christian-Jewish Encounter in the Sixteenth Century
- Anat Vaturi (Reichman University, University of Haifa): Encountering Neighbors? The Portrayal of Jews in the Calvinist Discourse for Tolerance in Post-Reformation Poland
- Nina Niedermeier (University of Augsburg): Fortuna, Providentia and Salvation History – the Book of Esther as a Jewish-Christian Image Subject in Early Modern Venice
Room 4 “Ahavah”
Pacifism and Dissidence in Central Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Chair: Davide Dainese (University of Bologna | FSCIRE)
- Martin Pjecha (Centre for Medieval Studes, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague): A Paradoxical Pacifist? Peter Chelčický (d. c.1460) on Antichristian Politics
- 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
- Theo Brok (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Revisiting the Emergence and Spread of Anabaptism in the Southern Habsburg Netherlands (1530–1555)
SHORT PAPER PANELS 5
Thursday 16 May, 08:30-10:00
Monumental Theatre
New Perspectives on Luther and Lutheranism
Chair: Anna Vind (University of Copenhagen)
- Carl Springer (University of Tennessee Chattanooga): Mark’s Eyes: Albrecht Dürer and Martin Luther
- Marta Quatrale (Freie Universität Berlin): Anfechtung/tentatio: Hatred Towards God and Conflicting Emotions as a Criterion to Discern Lutheran Sources?
- Stephen Burnett (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA): Luther’s Against the Sabbatarians (1538) and Judaizing Christians in Electoral Saxony
Room 1 “Ahl al-Kitāb”
(Multi-) Confessionalisation and Urban Reformation in Central Europe
Chair: Graeme Murdock (Trinity College Dublin)
- Mária Pakucs (N. Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest): The Influence of the Reformation of Johannes Honterus on the Saxon Town Councils in Transylvania
- 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
- 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
Room 2 “Ex Directorate”
The Search for Confessional Identity in the Anglican Church
Chair: Simon Burton (University of Edinburgh)
- Abigail Hayton (University of Oxford): Does Jewish Law Mandate Infant Baptism by Sprinkling? The Perspective of John Lightfoot (1602–75)
- 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?
- Diego Lucci (American University in Bulgaria): Transubstantiation, the Trinity, and the Rule of Faith in England under James II
Room 3 “Theresianum”
Devotion to the Saints and the Virgin in a Religiously-Diverse Era
Chair: Violet Soen (KU Leuven)
- Marco Papasidero (University of Palermo): Religious Encounters and Miraculous Conversions in Early Modern Marian Legends
- Patryk M. Ryczkowski (Innsbruck University): Uniate Church between Vilnius and Rome: Josaphat Kuntsevych in the Hagiographic Sources of the Mid-Seventeenth Century
- Antonio Pio Di Cosmo (DREST): The Virgin and Her Patronage: An Analysis of Two Typologies of Devotion Productions and Their Implications on Visual Culture
Room 4 “Ahavah”
Literature and Its Reception in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Chair: Giacomo Favaretto (DREST | University of Palermo | FSCIRE)
- Gábor Ittzés (Debrecen Reformed Theological University): A Tenacious Myth of Authenticity: The Reception History of the Dream of Frederick the Wise
- Linda Steele (Carleton University, Ottawa): Fortune Favours the Bold: An Examination of Conflicting Messaging in Chaucer’s Man of Laws Tale
- Marcin Wisłocki (University of Wroclaw): Between Criticism and Recognition. On Visual Images in Theological Works by Daniel Cramer
Room 5 “Concinnitas”
Religion, Translation, and Nations in the Early Modern Era
Chair: Antonio Carluccio (DREST | University of Calabria | FSCIRE)
- Niels Reeh (University of Southern Denmark): The Early Modern Concept of Religion as Translation across the Religious Divide(s)
- Krzysztof Witczak (University of Lodz): Alessandro Guagnini (1538–1614) on Religions and Nations of Eastern Europe
- 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
SHORT PAPER PANELS 6
Thursday 16 May, 10:30-12:00
Monumental Theatre
Political and Historical Theology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Chair: Herman Selderhuis (REFORC)
- Davide Dainese (University of Bologna |FSCIRE): Between Coexistence and Domination. Pietrino Belli as a Benchmark of an Ongoing Juridico-Political Transformation
- 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)
Room 1 “Ahl al-Kitāb”
The Impact of Francophone Religious Culture in the Early Modern Era
Chair: Gianmarco Braghi (University of Palermo | FSCIRE)
- Didier Course (Hood College Maryland): Hagiography, Geopolitics, Adventure Novel, or Amorous Tale? A Study on the Arabo-Muslim Motif in French Literature
- Caleb Abraham (Université de Lausanne): Books and Itineraries: New Perspectives on the Genevan Collège de Rive Before the Academy (1559)
- Zsombor Tóth (Centre for Reformation Studies, Budapest): “Les consolations de l’ame fidele contre les frayeurs de la mort”. A French Bestseller and its Hungarian Reception in the Eighteenth Century (a Case Study)
Room 2 “Ex Directorate”
Mobility, Economy, and Diplomacy in the Shaping of Confessional Identities
Chair: Antonio Carluccio (DREST | University of Calabria | FSCIRE)
- 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
- Julia Paduch (University of Wrocław): Indications Dedicated to French Diplomats Regarding Religious Issues during the Thirty Years’ War
Room 3 “Theresianum”
East Indies, West Indies, “Our” Indies: Christian Missions in a Global Setting
Chair: Fabrizio D’Avenia (University of Palermo)
- Valentina Bottanelli (FSCIRE): Cross-Confession Contamination in Early Modern China and Dutch Batavia: Justus Heurnius’ Chinese-Latin Compendium Doctrinae Christianae (Bodleian Library, Marsh 456)
- Benedikt Brunner (IEG Mainz): Contesting Sacralities. Native Americans, Puritan Missionaries, and the Fight for a New Sensescape in Colonial New England
- Radu Nedici (University of Bucharest): “…like Mandarins in China”: Jesuits, the Greek Orthodox, and the Rites Controversy in Early Eighteenth-Century East-Central Europe
Room 4 “Ahavah”
Christians and New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula
Chair: Laura Beck Varela (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
- Bernhard Holl (Archdiocese Berlin): And the Land Rested for Forty Years: Spanish New Christians at the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century
- João Nunes (Polytechnic University of Viseu; CHSC, University of Coimbra): Save the Enslaved: the Marriage of Enslaved People in Lisbon Between 1612 and 1623
- Yunus Dogan (European University Institute, EUI): A Tale of Two Faiths: When Local Christians Encounter New Christians
