Kennedy
Professor
in
2013
Renaissance
Studies
Lecture
Series
Torrance Kirby
2013–2014 Ruth and Clarence
Kennedy Professor in
Renaissance Studies
Professor of Ecclesiastical
History and Director of the
Centre for Research on
Religion at McGill University,
Montreal. He is a life member
of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge and a member of
the Princeton Centre
of Theological Inquiry
since 1996.
Sermon at St. Paul’s Cross, 1616, Courtesy of the Society for Antiquaries in London
Paul’s Cross and the Culture of Persuasion:
Tudor Origins of the Early-Modern
Public Sphere
Tuesday, October 8, 5 p.m.
Public Conversion: Erasmian Reform
and Richard Smyth’s “Retractation”
at Paul’s Cross, 1547
Tuesday, October 29, 5 p.m.
Politics and Hermeneutics:
John Jewel’s “Great Challenge,” 1559
Tuesday, November 12, 5 p.m.
Graham Auditorium/Hillyer Hall,
Brown Fine Arts Center
This series hosted by the Smith
College Department of Religion
and made possible by the Ruth and
Clarence Kennedy Endowment for
Renaissance Studies.