Trans-Regional Perspectives
About this Event
A two-day workshop to reflect on how ideas, models, and paradigms about Church-state relations and the role of civil authorities in matters of religion travelled across regional borders in early modern Europe.
Venue: Doctorow Hall, St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Programme:
29 September
14.00-14.30 Welcome and registration
14.30-14.45 Opening remarks
14.45-16.00 Panel 1 – The Anglo-Dutch connection
Sarah Mortimer (Oxford) – ‘The Remonstrants and the Church of England’
Polly Ha (Duke) – ‘Dualism before Descartes? Revisiting Anglo-Dutch ecclesiastical politics’
16.00-16.30 Coffee
16.30-18.15 Panel 2 – Thinkers, texts, and their reception
Marco Barducci (Pavia) – ‘Entangled contexts of Grotius’s jus circa sacra: sources, receptions, and comparisons’
Francesco Quatrini (Firenze) – ‘Johann Crell's Vindiciae pro religionis libertate (1637) from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the European context’
Colin Donnelly (Oxford) – ‘"We ought moare to obey God then men": authority in the early English and German Reformations’
18.15-19.00 Drinks reception
30 September
10.45-12.00 Panel 3 – Crossing confessional traditions
Atsuko Fukuoka (Tokyo) – ‘What does the “state of nature” concept obscure? Grotius’s attempt to systemize sources of law between the perspectives of the Salamanca School and mos geometricus’
Chiara Petrolini (Bologna) – ‘A corsair's Qur'an: Sarpi and the jurisdiction of the critic’
12.15-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.45 Panel 4 – Trends in European Catholicism
Ian Campbell (Belfast) – ‘Scotists, Jansenists and the state of nature: Bonaventure Baron on the origins of human society’
Stefania Tutino (UCLA) – ‘How long was Rome’s arm? Enforcing authority across early modern Catholic Europe’
14.45-15.15 Coffee
15.15-16.30 Panel 5 – Roots and dissemination of Reformed political ideas
Lorenzo Paoli (Geneva) – ‘Prisca politica: Pre-Roman antiquities and the origins of spiritual and temporal power in Reformation Europe’
Odile Panetta (Oxford) – ‘Higher education and the dissemination of political theology in Reformed Europe’
16.30-17.00 Coffee
17.00-18.00 Roundtable discussion
Event venue & nearby stays
St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane, Oxford, United Kingdom
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