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 

Registration required

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