Tyndale, More and their circles: Persecution and martyrdom under the Tudors.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom, 3-6 July 2008

This will be an interdisciplinary conference which will bring together scholars interested in the religious history and literature of the Tudor period. Although there will be a focus on lives, works and reputations of Tyndale and More, papers are sought on martyrdom, religious persecution and inter-Christian conflict generally and thus may range in subject from Anne Askew to Edmund Campion.

Principal Speakers:

Prof. Brian Cummings, University of Sussex;
Prof. Eamon Duffy University of Cambridge;
Rev. Dr Ralph S. Werrell, The Tyndale Society.

Proposals for 25 minute papers (including your name, institutional affiliation (where relevant) and title and 300-500 words) or enquiries should be directed by October 1st 2007 to Rev. Matthew Baynham, Hopkins Hall, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool L38QB, UK ( baynham@hope.ac.uk ) or Dr John Flood, Balliol College, Oxford OX1 3BJ, UK. (john.flood@balliol.ox.ac.uk )

For updates see www.hope.ac.uk/tyndale-more