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Religious History of Britain 1500-1800

Convenors: David Crankshaw (KCL), Liz Evenden (Brunel University), Kenneth Fincham (University of Kent), Andrew Foster (University of Kent), Tom Freeman (University of Sheffield), Susan Hardman Moore (University of Edinburgh), Arnold Hunt (British Library), Nicholas Tyacke (UCL), Brett Usher (University of Reading)

Venue: International Relations Room, IHR

Time: Tuesday, 5.00pm
Autumn Term 2009
13 October Andrew Foster (University of Kent)
The English and Welsh Dioceses 1540-1700
27 October Tom Betteridge (Oxford Brookes)
William Shakespeare and the Problem of Religion
10 November Alan Cromartie (University of Reading)
The Mind of Archbishop Laud
24 November Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield)
Sacrilege and Compromise: Court Divines and the King's Conscience, 1642-9
8 December Anne Dillon (University of Cambridge)
Michelangelo and the English Martyrs

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Spring Term 2010
26 January David Manning (University of Cambridge)
Primitive Christianity, Polemical Theology and Blasphemy: Reinterpreting the Character and Reception of Thomas Woolston's Discourses on the Miracles of our Saviour (6 vols, 1727-9)
9 February Judith Maltby (University of Oxford)
Extravagancies and Impertinencies: Set Forms and Conceived Prayer in Revolutionary England
23 February Alexandra Tompkins (QM)
The Popish Royall Favourite? English Catholicism during the Interregnum
9 March Ruth Ahnert (University of Cambridge)
The Posthumous Publication of Reformation Prison Writings
23 March Felicity Heal (University of Oxford)
Holinshed's Chronicle and Religious Identity in late 16thC Britain

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Summer Term 2010
4 May Torrance Kirby (McGill University)
The Pulpit at Paul's Cross and Tudor Origins of the Early-Modern Public Sphere
18 May Ric Whaite (KCL)
Religious Practice and Scientific Benefaction: the Case of Thomas Hollis the 3rd (1659-1731)
1 June Paul Lim (Vanderbilt University)
Between Radicalism and Rationalism: the Strange Case of English Antitrinitarianism between 1640 and 1660
9 June Arthur Burns (KCL), Kenneth Fincham (University of Kent) and Stephen Taylor (University of Reading)
New Questions in the History of the early modern Clerical Profession: a prolegomenon for Research
Please note: this is a joint meeting on Wednesday 9th of June with the 'British History in the Long 18thC' Seminar in the Wolfson Room at 17:15
15 June Tom Reid (University of Kent)
Clerical Pluralism and Incomes in Canterbury Diocese, 1600-1715
29 June Caroline Bowden (QM)
Katharine Keats-Rohan and Katrien Daemen DeGelder (Ghent)
Free Will and Enclosure: Recruitment and Motivation in the English Convents in Exile 1600-1700

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