EARLY MODERN PARISH CHURCH
CONFERENCE
WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD
6th-8th April, 2009
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Monday, 6th April
3-5
Catholic Parish Churches
David Boswell – Early Modern Church Design and Development in
the Maltese Islands
Elizabeth Tingle – The Counter Reformation and the Parish Church:
Parish Closes in Western Brittany, 1500-1700
Rafael-Dorian Chelaru – The Catholic Parishes in 17th – 18th century
Moldavia (Diocese of Bacău): Economic Aspects
Philippa Woodcock – Preaching beyond the parish church
Parish Churches and Conflict
Jennifer Smyth – ‘A heretic at the pulpit and an outlaw in the aisle’:
Keeping control of the church in the early urban Reformation
Anne-Laure Van Bruaene – The parish in the Southern Low Countries
Fiona Youngman – Division, discord and dilapidations – the parish
church during the civil war and Interregnum
5-6.30
PLENARY
Beat Kümin: Churches, Texts and People: Parish Identities in
Pre-Industrial Europe
Reception
Dinner
Tuesday, 7th April
9-10.30
Lutheran Churches
Emily Fisher Gray – Joseph Furttenbach and the ‘ideal’ Lutheran
church
Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen – On Lutheran Chancel decorations
Matthias Range – An Island Parish Church: Hallig Hooge (North Sea)
Nonconformity and the Parish
Anna Seregina – Between parish and private chapel: a Catholic
household in Elizabethan England
Maria Crăciun – Unitarian Parish Churches in Early Modern
Transylvania
Jonathan Harlow – ‘Hungry Sheep’: the impoverishment of Bristol’s
parish ministry and the establishment of Quakerism, 1645-1660
10.30-11
Coffee
11-12.30
PLENARY
Hugo Johannsen – ‘The new temple. Transformations of Danish parish
churches c. 1550 - 1650 following the Lutheran Reformation 1536.'
12.30-2
Lunch
2-4.00
Lutheran Churches
Evelin Wetter – Staging the Lord’s Supper: Confessional Encoding of
Medieval Furnishings in Transylvanian Lutheran Churches
Krista Kodres – The Lutheran parish church in Estonia during the
Swedish rule: communication of the invisible
Parish Churches and their Government
Simon Lambe – ‘Eternal rest grant unto him’: a re-evaluation of gentry
parochial and monastic bequests in the Tudor south-west.
John Craig – The Parish Church in Early Modern England
Richelle Munkhoff – The Parish Vestry in Early Modern London
Kate Jewell – The Problem of ‘Holes in the Archives’ of the Early
Modern Parish Church
4-4.30
Tea
5-6.30
PLENARY
Pam Graves – ‘Cosin, Coal and Cherubims: a perspective on the early
modern parish church in the North-East of England’.
DINNER
Wednesday, 8th April
9-10
Space and the Parish
Katharine Olson – The Sacred Landscape, Devotion and Local
Contexts of Change: Assessing the Parish in Early Modern Wales
Graham Chernoff – Early Modern Fife parishes with new churches: a
spiritually and physically Reformed kingdom
Arjan Nobel – The early modern parish in the Dutch Republic
Parish Churches – Literature and Music
Jonathan Willis – Music and the Elizabethan Parish Church
Anne Myers – The Parish Church in the Sermons of John Donne
Robert Oswald – Reader, Reflector and Spectator: The Pedagogical
Function of the Parish Church in the Thought of the London Protestant
Nehemiah Wallington
Celestina Savonius-Wroth – ‘Popular Antiquities’ and liturgical
identity in the English parish church, 1689-1832
11-11.30
Coffee
11.30-1
PLENARY
Richard Morris – Austins among angels: living and believing on
Birmingham's edge, c.1400-2005
FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR A BOOKING FORM CONTACT:
Dr Matthias Range
matthias.range@brookes.ac.uk
OR
Prof. Andrew Spicer
aspicer@brookes.ac.uk