Below are the accepted short paper proposals for the Fourteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity, to be held May 22-24, 205 at Central European University in Vienna.
Updated: November 18, 2024.
Konstantin Anikin (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg): Rolle der Bogomilen im Denken der Pietisten und der “lutherischen Orthodoxie”
Doron Avraham (Bar Ilan University, Israel): Rebellion within Limits: German Pietism and the Contestation of Established Order
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
Theo Brok (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam): Crafting the History of Early Modern Dutch Anabaptism: The Legacy of Willem Kühler (1874-1946)
Mei-Hsin Chen (University of Navarra): Martin Luther’s Stance on Religious Images: A Moderate Approach to Iconoclasm
Nicolò Di Dio (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies): The “Exhortation aux Princes” and the Struggle for Religious Pacification in France: the Rise of Civil Tolerance
Jake Griesel (George Whitefield College, Cape Town): John Pearson’s defence of prayer book and King in Parliamentarian Cambridge amidst the early English Civil War (1643)
Bernhard Holl (University of Potsdam): Defeated, yet Victorious: the Toledo Rebellion of 1449 and the Lasting Effects of its Pure-Blood Agenda
Christine Kooi (Louisiana State University): Theological Rebellion in 1572
Hiram Kümper (Mannheim University): Terpander’s Heirs: Taming Rebellion with Music in Early Modern Theorists
Przemyslaw A. Lewicki (Makowski Academy of Reformed Theology): Polish Reformed Confession at Colloquium Charitativum 1645: Exploring Polish Reformed Theology in Search of Harmony
Barbara Müller (Universität Hamburg): Perseverance as Rebellion. Johannes Bugenhagen’s Defeat over the Hamburg (Beguine-) Convent opposite St Jacob’s Church
Seraphine Nzue-Agbadou (Charleston Southern University): Religion and Violence: A Comparative Analysis of the Protestant Uprising in some southern regions of France (1500-1600)
Katharina Opalka (Faculty of Protestant Theology/Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn): Power in the Protestant Church in light of the ForuM-Study
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
Carlos Piccone-Camere (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú): The Capuchin Rebellion: Challenges of Living the Franciscan Rule in South American Missions
Deirdre Raftery (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
Clarisse Roche (United Arab Emirates University): Rebelling against Religious Moderation: Georg Eder’s Confessional Challenge to the Habsburg Middle way in Sixteenth-century Vienna
Sabrina Rospert (University of Basel): A Mere Religious Matter? Protestant Population Parts between Rebellion and Loyalty in 1672 Counter-Reformation Royal Hungary
Fabian Sieber (Theologische Fakultät Fulda): A Revolution through Faith – Thomas Müntzer, Theology and the Peaceful Revolution of 1989
Marie Škarpová (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
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
Edit Szegedi (Universitatea Babes-Bolyai): The Forgotten Century and its Many cCnflicts: Lutheranism in 17th Century Transylvania
Neil Tarrant (UCL): The Italian Reformation in Exile? Francesco Pucci’s Early Theological Thought
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
