Place and Preaching

6-7th September 2013, Place and Preaching

The Wren Suite, St Paul's Cathedral London

Sponsored by the AHRC in its support of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, this is a conference which will reassess the 'place' of preaching in Early Modern Europe in all its aspects.

Plenary Lecture: Brian Cummings (York)

Confirmed Speakers: Hugh Adlington (Birmingham); David Colclough (Queen Mary); Joshua Eckhardt (Virginia Commonwealth); Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge); Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont); Kenneth Fincham (Kent); Erica Longfellow (Oxford); Mary Ann Lund (Leicester); Peter McCullough (Oxford); Charlotte Methuen (Glasgow); Mary Morrissey (Reading); Jean-Louis Quantin (Sorbonne); Emma Rhatigan (Sheffield); Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes); Sebastiaan Verweij (Oxford); Philip West (Oxford)

All further conference details – including graduate bursaries to attend the conference - and information on booking will be posted on this site later: http://www.cems-oxford.org/donne

Call for Papers

The organisers welcome proposals (250-500 word abstracts) for further papers on any of the following aspects of sermon culture in Early Modern Europe: Roman Catholic preaching; architectural settings and auditories of preaching; sermons in manuscript and print; performance and delivery; sermon hearing, note taking, and commonplacing; production and reception of patristic and other theological works; rhetoric; and more.

Please send your proposals to Professor Peter McCullough and Dr Sebastiaan Verweij: peter.mccullough@lincoln.ox.ac.uk / sebastiaan.verweij@ell.ox.ac.uk

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 MAY 2013

Dr Sebastiaan Verweij || Fulford JRF, Somerville College, Oxford
Research Associate, The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
a: English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UL
t: 0044 (0)1865 271931 || skype: seb.macv

Seminars in Early Modern Preaching: King David

6 November 2010

Old Whiteknights House, University of Reading


11.00-11.30     Registration and Welcome

11.30-13.00     Panel 1: King David and Exemplary Penance

                        Chair: Dr Mary Morrissey (University of Reading)


‘with one worde spekynge his herte was chaunged’: John Fisher on the  penitence of King David and King Henry VII
                        Dr Cecilia Hatt (University of Oxford)

King David as a model for Penitence: Hildersham on Psalm 51 and Psalm 35
Dr Lesley Rowe (University of Warwick)


13.00-14.00     Lunch

14.00-15.30     Panel 2: John Donne

                      Chair: Dr Hugh Adlington (University of Birmingham)


           Reading King David at Lincoln’s Inn: Donne’s Sermon Series on Psalm 38
                      Dr. Emma Rhatigan (University of Sheffield)

                      King David in John Donne’s Psalm 32 sermon series
                      Dr Mary Ann Lund (University of Leicester)

15.30-16.00     Tea/Coffee

16.00-17.30     Panel 3: King David and the Politics of Kingship
                      Chair: Mary Anne Lund (University of Leicester)

                      King David and the Restoration 1660-1685
Dr David Appleby (University of Nottingham)

                       ‘Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son’:
                       William Laud’s Accession Day sermon, 1631.
Professor Alan Cromartie (University of Reading)

17.30               Closing Remarks

A registration fee of £10 includes colloquium fee, morning coffee, lunch, and afternoon tea.  Please book by Friday 29 October.  For details of registration, travel and further information, please email Dr Mary Morrissey (m.e.morrissey@reading.ac.uk<mailto:m.e.morrissey@reading.ac.uk>) or Dr Hugh Adlington (h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk<mailto:h.c.adlington@bham.ac.uk>).


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