Spiritual and Secular Authority in Early Modern Europe: Trans-Regional Perspectives
Date: Tuesday 29 September to Wednesday 30 September
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Doctorow Hall
For any questions regarding the event, please contact Odile Panetta (odile.panetta@history.ox.ac.uk)
Programme:
Tuesday 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
(chair: Anthony Milton)
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
(chair: Alex Gajda)
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'
Wednesday 30 September
10.45-12.00 Panel 3: Crossing confessional traditions
(chair: Filippo de Vivo)
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
(chair: Giuseppe Marcocci)
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 (chair: Noel Malcolm)
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
