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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
Congratulations to Dr Jacqueline Rose has been awarded the Royal Historical Society’s Whitfield Prize 2011 for her book Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy, 1660-1688 (Cambridge University Press). The Prize is awarded annually to the best book in British or Irish history which is the author’s first monograph. The judges said: “Godly Kingship is an outstanding book. It is based on deeply impressive research, which establishes the different lines of argument in what are often difficult theological, ecclesiastical, legal and political tracts. Time and again, her readings are rich and sensitive. It has a long (and appropriate) chronological span, and it offers new interpretations of central historical problems...”
Congratulations to Róisín Watson, who had been awarded a scholarship by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst to undertake research for her PhD on female artistic patronage in the Duchy of Württemberg. Róisín will spend the academic year 2012-13 in Stuttgart working with Professor Joachim Bahlcke.
Congratulations to Nadja Kundmüller who has been awarded a postgraduate bursary by the German Historical Society to complete her PhD on the cult of the Eucharist in Early Modern Bavaria.
JOHN CONDREN will be a visiting student at the Centre Roland Mousnier, Université de Paris-Sorbonne IV from September to December 2012 and will be on an Erasmus exchange at the European University Institute, Florence, from February to May 2013.
We are pleased to announce the publication of BRUCE GORDON and MATTHEW MCLEAN (ed.), “Shaping the Bible in the Reformation: Books, Scholars and Their Readers in the Sixteenth Century” (Brill, 2012).
BRIDGET HEAL has been awarded a scholarship by the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel to continue the research for her project on Lutheran visual culture during the Renaissance and Baroque. She will spend the summer of 2013 in Wolfenbüttel looking at the library’s collection of illustrated Bibles and catechisms.
EMILY MICHELSON gave a paper at the Sermon Reception workshop in St Andrews in June, at the Society for Renaissance Studies conference in Manchester in July and at the Reformation Studies Colloquium in Durham in September. She will be participating in a seminar on "Religion, orality and writing" in Trent in November, as part of the Italian Voices project at the University of Leeds. Her article, “Preaching Across Rome in the Sixteenth Century: Three Key Sites for Catholic Identity” has appeared in in Early Modern Rome 1341-1667 ed. Portia Prebys (AACUPI, 2012).
ANDREW PETTEGREE will give papers in Liverpool, Oxford and Dublin during the course of a busy autumn. In October he will speak to the Liverpool university staff seminar. In November he will give two papers in Oxford, to a newly established research cluster in Keble College, and to the Merton College History of the Book Group. In December he will be in Dublin to give the first annual lecture for the Trinity College Centre for Early Modern History.
BETH TAPSCOTT will present a paper at the SCSC in Cincinnati on “'Trew Preicheours to me send': Protestant preaching in the early Scottish Reformation, c.1527-1557.”