The Early Modern Intelligencer

Annual Ecclesiastical History Colloquium, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University Date: Wednesday, 30 June 2010 Time: 15:30 – 20:00 Programme 3.30 Panel: ‘Samuel Wesley: Family, Theology and Mission’ ‘None but Presbyterian Baptism: Samuel Wesley and the Lay Baptism Controversy.’ Professor William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University ‘A Critical Analysis of the Theology [...]

Our latest edition of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society Bulletin is here: For Summer 2010 you’ll find: Reports on our most recent events by John Croxon (Michael Hunter on ‘The Decline of Magic: The Paradoxical Role of the Royal Society’), Timothy Alves (Richard Williams on ‘Culture Clash? World and Image in Reformation Europe’), and Jackie [...]

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society AGM and ‘Restorations’ Conference Saturday 3 July 2010, Room B20, Birkbeck, Malet St 10.00 Registration, tea and coffee in room B02 10.30 AGM 11.00 Robin Rowles: welcome to conference, introductions, opening comments 11. 10 Session 1: Frank Ferrie, ‘Piero della Francesca’s Madonna del Parto (The Expectant Virgin Mary): A History [...]

Call for papers: Last Orders? The Art and Architecture of Religious Orders in England, c.1350–1540 Tuesday, 17 May 2011 The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2 In contrast to the arts of the so-called ‘golden age’ of English religious life during the High Middle Ages, the visual culture of subsequent generations of [...]

Prof. Julian Swann, ‘Despotism, Public Opinion and the Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy’, 6.30 pm, Thursday 24 June, Malet St, Room B35, followed by our end of year party in B04 Julian Swann is an expert on old regime France and has published widely on subjects such as the parlement of Burgundy, power and provincial [...]