‘Church, State and Toleration’

LONDON RENAISSANCE SEMINAR
Convener: Dr Eliane Glaser

Council Room
Ground Floor, main building
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX

Saturday, 29th November 2008, 1.30-5.30pm

(please note change of room)

This seminar will explore connections between the church-state relationship and religious diversity, in the early modern period and today. To what extent are 16th- and 17th-century debates about religious toleration concerned with the structural arrangement of sacred and secular jurisdictions? And how can research on the early modern period shed light on contemporary debates about religious discord and the place of religion within civil society?

Alan Cromartie, University of Reading: ‘Church, state, and reason’

Feisal Mohamed, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: ‘Donne's Pseudo-Martyr and the Challenges of Liberal Toleration in a Climate of Terror’

Ann Hughes, Keele University: ‘Understanding Intolerance: Presbyterian campaigns in the 1640s’

Michael Questier, Queen Mary, University of London: ‘Apostates’

The London Renaissance Seminar meets regularly to discuss the literature, history and culture of the period 1500-1700. For further information, or to join the e-list, contact t.healy@bbk.ac.uk. For further information about this event please contact elianeglaser@hotmail.com