News
The Institute is proud to announce that it has joined Refo500, an international association of universities, research institutes and museums intended to foster the dissemination of knowledge and ideas about the Reformation both within and beyond the academic community in the build-up to 2017. Within Refo500, the Reformation Research Consortium provides a programme of scholarly conferences and research support. After its first successful conference in Zurich this year at the Institute for Swiss Reformation Research, registration is now open for the second RefoRC Conference, May 10-12 2012, at the University of Oslo. Plenary papers will have a common theme: 'Preparing for Death and remembering the Dead at the time of the Reformation. Comparative perspectives', but short paper presentations are welome on any aspect of Reformation history. For further details see http://www.refo500.nl/en/news/6
The Reformation Studies Institute has been awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant for the ongoing collaborative project Sermon Reception and Religious Identity in Reformation Europe. The Institute held a very successful workshop on hearing sermons in Francophone contexts in June, organized by Dr Emily Michelson with Dr Graeme Murdock, Prof. William Naphy, and Prof. Andrew Spicer. The next workshops will be held in 2012 and details will be announced in the spring newsletter and on the project’s website: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/reformation/sermonreception/index.html
Welcome to Dr Jacqueline Rose, our newest permanent appointment in Reformation Studies. Jacqueline works on Reformation politics and ideas in England. She read history at Clare College, Cambridge, as an undergraduate, masters, and doctoral student from 2000 to 2006; and was a College Lecturer and Director of Studies at Newnham College from 2006 to 2011. Cambridge University Press has just published her first monograph: 'Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy, 1660-1688'. Jacqueline has further published articles on early modern British political, religious, and intellectual history in The Historical Journal, The English Historical Review, Historical Research, and The Seventeenth Century. In June she participated in a 'thinking day' at the Tower of London for staff of Historic Royal Palaces. She will contribute a chapter to the first volume of the Oxford History of Anglicanism, but her current major research project is a book on kingship and political counsel from Henry VIII to James VII and II. Jacqueline will be teaching and contributing to undergraduate courses on 'The politics of monarchy in Tudor and Stuart England, 1500-1685' 'Scotland, Britain and empire, 1500-2000'; next year she plans a module on the Long Reformation. She teaches for the M.Litts. in Reformation Studies
Congratulations to Dan Thomas and Melissa Arch, who were married this past July after meeting at the Institute in 2007-2008!
Adam Marks will be present at two conferences in November: ‘English Intervention? Fleetwood's regiment at the Battle of Wittstock’ Battlefield and mass grave– a range of interdisciplinary analyses of places of violence (The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archaeological Museum, Brandenburg) and ‘The English Colleges in Spain and their impact on the British Isles during the early Seventeenth Century’ Las Corporaciones de Nación en la Monarquía Hispánica (1580-1750). Identidad, Patronazgo Y Redes de Sociabildad (Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid).
Roger Mason contributed to a symposium on 'What was political thought in sixteenth-century England?' at the Folger Institute, Washington DC, in April, and gave a paper on 'Scottish self-fashioning and the union of the crowns in 1603' at a conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature at the University of Padua in July. In November he will be chairing a session on the Scottish Reformation at the North American Conference of British Studies, Denver, Colorado, and giving a keynote address to a conference organised byHistoric Scotland to mark the re-opening of the newly-restored Renaissance Palace Block at Stirling Castle.
Emily Michelson was a visiting scholar at Tel Aviv University in May, where she spoke on “Catholic Identity in and around the Roman Ghetto.” The resulting article will be published in Hebrew in the scholarly journal Zmanim as well as in English.
Andrew Pettegree received the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan prize of the Renaissance Society of America for his book, The Book in the Renaissance (Yale University Press). The prize is awarded for the best book in the field in the previous year. The Book in the Renaissance, which was also named one of the New York Times notable books of 2010, will be published in paperback on 3 October.
Tom Scott published ‘The collective response of women to early Reformation preaching: Four small communities and their preachers compared’, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 102 (2011), 7-32. He will hold a visiting Professorship at University of Milan in late November 2011.
Malcolm Walsby published a monograph in June, The Printed Book in Brittany 1484 - 1600 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), and in Augus, the edited collection (with Graeme Kemp) The Book Triumphant. Print in Transition in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2011)