Britain's Icons: Writing, Images and Cultural Signs 1450-1670

A Conference at Birkbeck College

Programme

Venue:

23rd November Room G01 Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Sq, London WC1.

24 November, Room 101, School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, 30 Russell Sq, London WC1.

A map of the area may be found on

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps

Friday, 23 November

10:00-10:30 Registration

10:30-12:30 

Margaret Healy (Sussex), 'Hieroglyphs, Emblems and the Eye of the Mind.'

Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck), Civil War Iconoclasm.

12:30-1:30 lunch (own arrangements)

1:30-3:30

Anthony Bale (Birkbeck), 'Preserving Sacramental Childhood? Boy saints and ritual murder narratives in the Reformation.'

Philip Schwyzer (Exeter) Cast down his Bones! Early Protestant responses to Catholic corpses.‚

3:30-4:00 tea

4:00-6:00

Tom Betteridge (Oxford Brookes), 'How many bloody letters been written in this book': Christ as text in the work of John Fisher, Thomas More and George Herbert.

David Loewenstein (Wisconsin), Burning Heretics and Fashioning Martyrs: Religious Extremism and Violence in John Foxe.

6:00-7:30 drinks reception.

Saturday 24 November

9:00-9:30 coffee

9:30-10:30

Isabel Davis, 'Plastic icons: Picturing the Conjugal Family in the Later Middle Ages.'

10:30-11:00 coffee

11:00-1:00

Richard Williams (Birkbeck), 'The Reformation of an Icon: The 'Portrait' of Christ in Late-Sixteenth-Century England.'

Matthew Dimmock, (Sussex) 'Anti-Icons: Alternative Christs in Post-Reformation England'

1:00-2:00 lunch

2:00-4:00 

Tom Healy (Birkbeck), Elizabeth I and the Spenserian imagination.‚

Alice Hunt (Southampton), Idol ceremony?: James I's Protestant Coronation, 1603.‚

Details from Prof Thomas Healy (t.healy@bbk.ac.uk)

Prof Susan Wiseman (s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk)

Staff/Waged: £20, Students/Unwaged £10.