MARTYRDOM AND MARTYRS: EARLY-MODERN PERSPECTIVES
The Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies at the University of Durham is pleased to be hosting an interdisciplinary international colloquium to be held at St John's College on Thursday 11 April 2002. Further details and an online booking form are available on: http://www.dur.ac.uk/SMEL/17c/martyrindex.html
Please feel free to contact the organiser, Paul Scott, with any queries (p.a.scott@dur.ac.uk).
PROGRAMME
10.00 10.30 : Registration and Coffee
10.30 11.40 : Session 1
- Introductory Adress
- Martin Dzelzainis (Royal Holloway): Martyrs and Printers in Restoration England
- Dom Denis Robinson, OSB (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): White Martyrs, Intellectual Witnesses: the Nuns of Port-Royal and the Deconstruction of Martyrdom 11.45 1.15 : Session 2
- Alison Forrestal (Durham): The Martyred Bishop in Seventeenth-Century France
- Mary Beth Long (Massachusetts): Resisting Martyrdom as a Viable Path to Female Sanctity in a Seventeenth-Century English Legendary
- Andrew M. Beresford (Durham): The Cult of John the Baptist in Early-Modern Hispanic Hagiography
1.15 : LUNCHEON
2.20 3.20 : Session 3
- Katherine Ibbett (University of California at Berkeley): The Tactics of Tyranny: Lessons from Pierre Corneilles Polyeucte and Théodore
- Paul Mathole (Royal Holloway): Marvells Martyrs
3.20 : TEA / COFFEE
3.45 4.45 : Session 4
- Jonathan D. Lauer (Messiah College): Shusaku Endos Portrayal of Martyrdom during the Christian Century (15491650) in Japan
- Paul Scott (Durham): Self-preservation in the Counter-Reformation: Jesuit Iconography of Oriental Martyrdoms
4.50 6.20 : Session 5
- Erin Bell (York): The Representation and Evolution of the Martyr in the Early Quaker Community
- Dom Aidan Bellenger, OSB (Downside Abbey): Benedictine Martyrs and their Commemoration
- Paul Njemanze (Lagos): Exploring the Mind of the Religious Martyr: a Psycho-historical Perspective
6.45 : DINNER