Censorship, Persecution and Resistance in Marian England

[this from the London Renaissance Seminar ...]

Newnham College, 12-14 April 2007 Sponsored by: The Bibliographical Society, and The Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield (The British Academy John Foxe Project)

Registation forms are now available for this conference. Cost: £99 (non-residential). For further details, registration forms and student bursary application forms, please contact Dr. Elizabeth Evenden on ee236@cam.ac.uk. Programme listed below.

Deadline for registration: 17 March 2007 (late fee incurred after this date). Deadline for student bursary applications: 17 February 2007.

Set in the beautiful surroundings of Newnham College, Cambridge, this conference will examine political and religious authority under Mary Tudor and resistance to it. The conference will also examine the role of the printed word in promoting both Catholic and Protestant opinion during this period, and assess the legacy of Mary's reign as depicted in both images and printed texts from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

Provisional Programme Day 1, Thursday 12 April 2007 1:00-2.00pm:
Registration Plenary session 1: 2.00pm-3.30pm Welcome by Dr. Liz Evenden
(University of Cambridge) Dr. Alec Ryrie (University of Durham):
Persecution or Liberation? How Mary's Reign Changed English Protestantism
Chair and comment: Dr Natalie Mears (University of Durham)

3.30pm-4.00pm: coffee/tea

Panel 1: Writing Marian Reputations: heroes and villains? 4.00pm-5.15pm Dr
Alexander Samson (University College London): Philip and Mary: The
Formation of a Reputation Eric Bramhall (Indpendent student): John
Bradford: Edwardian Preacher Not Silenced Edward Wilson (University of
Cambridge): 'The Pastime of Pleasure': Returning to Romance in Marian
England Chair: Prof. David Loades (Honorary Research Professor, University
of Sheffield)

Roundtable 1: 5.30pm-7.00pm The Marian Book Trade: personnel, propaganda
and control Participants: Dr. Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield), Dr.
Peter Blayney (Independent Scholar), Dr.Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University),
Prof. Eamon Duffy (University of Cambridge, tbc) Chair: Dr. Liz Evenden
(University of Cambridge)

7pm: Finger buffet and drinks reception, accompanied by a choir singing
Tudor music. This reception is sponsored by The British Academy John Foxe
Project (Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield)

Day 2, Friday 13 April, 2007 Plenary Forum: Word and picture: memorialising
Catholic and Protestant martyrs 9.00am-10.30am Dr Anne Dillon (University
of Cambridge): The Images of the Martyrdom of the Carthusian Fathers Prof.
Megan Hickerson (University of Arkansas): The Creation of a Villain: John
Foxe, Bishop Bonner, and the Marian Examinations Commentator: Dr. Tom
Freeman (University of Sheffield)

10.30-11.00am: coffee/tea

Panel 2: Marian Protestants: at home and abroad 11.00am-12.00pm Charlotte
Panofré (University of Cambridge): Radical Geneva? A Study of the Genevan
Exiles' Propaganda Output Rev. Dr. Ashley Null (Visiting Guggenheim Fellow
at University of Cambridge and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin): 'A
Confutation of Unwritten Verities': Using Cranmer's legacy to resist both
the actions of the Marian regime and the aspirations of the Geneva Exiles.
Chair: Dr. Alec Ryrie (University of Durham)

12.00pm-1.00pm: sandwich buffet

Plenary session 2: 1.00pm-2.30pm Dr. Peter Blayney (Independent Scholar):
The Stationers under Threat: How Pirates Endangered the Company's Existence
in 1558 Chair and comment: Dr. Giles Mandelbrote (British Library)

2.30pm-3.00pm: coffee/tea

Panel 4: Allegiance and opposition in the Marian kingdoms 3.00pm- 4.00pm
Dr. Alan Bryson (University of Sheffield): John Bale's 'Vocacyon' (1553/4):
reformation and counter-reformation in Marian Ireland Dr. Rory Rapple
(University College Dublin): Mid Tudor martial men, loyalty and the
Elizabethan future Chair: Prof. Mark Greengrass (University of Sheffield)

Panel 4: The Marian Persecution: causes and effects 4.15pm-5.30pm Lucy
Bates (University of Cambridge): Intellectual origins of the Marian
Persecution Emma Watson (University of York): A truly Catholic county?
Yorkshire resistance to the Marian restoration of Catholicism Sarah Brooks
(University of Cambridge): Becoming a female martyr in Marian England: case
studies Chair: Amy Blakeway (University of Cambridge)

Plenary Session 3:
6.00pm-7.30pm
Prof. Eamon Duffy: Title to be confirmed
Chair and comment:: Prof. Patrick Collinson
followed directly by: 7.30pm Conference Dinner

Day 3, Saturday 14 April 2007 Plenary Session 4: 9.00am-10.30am Prof. Tom
Mayer (Augustana College): Not just the hierarchy fought: the Marian
cathedral chapters, seminaries of recusancy Chair and comment: Prof. Eamon
Duffy (University of Cambridge)

10.30am-11.00am: coffee/tea

Roundtable 2: 11.00am-1.00pm Picturing the past: images of Marian
censorship, persecution and resistance after the death of Mary
Participants: Dr. Margaret Aston (Independent Scholar), Prof. Brian
Cummings (University of Sussex), Dr. Tom Freeman (University of Sheffield),
Dr. Sue Doran (Christ Church College, Oxford), Dr. Tom Betteridge (Oxford
Brookes University), Prof. Megan Hickerson (University of Arkansas) Chair:
Dr. Natalie Mears (University of Durham)

1.00pm-2.00pm: lunch

Plenary Session 5: 2.00pm-3.30pm
Dr. Tom Freeman (University of Sheffield): Worse than a Crime? The Marian
Prosecution of Heresy
Chair and comment: Dr. Margaret Aston (Independent Scholar)

3.30pm-4.00pm Conference comment: Prof. Eamon Duffy (University of
Cambridge), tbc 4.00pm: conference ends