Books by Natasha R Hodgson
This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence,... more This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods.
Contributors explore miracles, political authority and violence in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, various Protestant groups, Judaism, Islam and the local religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders who interacted with Christians. The chapters are geographically expansive, with contributions ranging from confessional conflict in Poland-Lithuania to the conquest of Oceania. They examine various types of conflict such as confessional struggles, conversion attempts, assassination and war, as well as themes including diplomacy, miraculous iconography, toleration, theology and rhetoric. Together, the chapters explore the appropriation of accounts of miraculous violence that are recorded in sacred texts to reveal what partisans claimed God did in conflict, and how they claimed to know. The volume investigates theories of justified warfare, changing beliefs about the supernatural with the advent of modernity and the perceived relationship between human and divine agency.
Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History is of interest to scholars and students in several fields including religion and violence, political and military history, and theology and the reception of sacred texts in the medieval and early modern world.
Religion and Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds: Identities, Communities and Authorities, 2020
Conference proceedings from the inaugural Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict conferenc... more Conference proceedings from the inaugural Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict conference held at NTU 11th-13th July 2017
Edited by Natasha Hodgson, John McCallum, Nicholas Morton and Amy Fuller
This volume consists of conference proceedings from the inaugural networking event of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods based at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. The centre was established in order to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. Tolerance, religious change and the role of religion in the resolution of conflict are also of central importance to the studies engaged in by the Centre. Conflicts with religious elements encompass not just military engagements but also social, political, cultural and economic events, forming a common strand between Medieval and Early Modern worlds. It is this multi-faceted nature of religion and conflict which has allowed for the development of a centre which focusses on these themes at Nottingham Trent University. The research undertaken in the centre is innovative and wide ranging in form. It has a high degree of international coverage and comprises half a millennium. The subjects under scrutiny here relate to major themes such as gender, community, emotion, politics, society through the lens of work on the crusades, confessionalism, wars of religion and civil war. Alongside this world-class research the centre has a serious commitment to public communication. The 2017 conference incorporated a broad chronological spectrum from medieval to early modern with a view to developing current research, sharing techniques, investigating new approaches and enhancing study in the wider field. The resulting articles put forward for publication examine ideas about religion and conflict in the context of text and identity, church and state, civic environments, marriage, the parish, heresy, gender, dialogues, war and finance, and Holy War.
This collection investigates the relationship between religion and conflict from the seventh to eighteenth centuries and from a variety of historical and geographical perspectives ranging from Byzantium to post-conquest Mexico. It explores the vocabularies and mediums for the integration of religion into situations of conflict in diverse historical contexts. Both written and visual expressions of religion at times of conflict are explored, establishing the use of religion in propaganda and polemic as key to the formation of identities. It takes a focused look at religious expressions of conflict at a localised level: including studies on the use of language in legal and clerical contexts to influence social behaviours relating to comportment, marriage and sedition. It also explores spatial expressions of religious conflict within medieval and early modern urban environments, and through travel and pilgrimage. The final section of this collection examines the use of religion to legitimise the use of violence, to underpin its spiritual value and to rationalise the enforcement of social rules.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
NATASHA HODGSON AND AMY FULLER
Part I: Propaganda, Polemic and Religious Identities
1 Religion and Conflict, Conflict and Religion: Long-Distance Pilgrimage and the (Re)building of Catholic Identity in an Era of Religious War in France 1550-1650.
ELIZABETH TINGLE
2 Identity and Empire: Anti-Spanish sentiment in news and travel pamphlets printed in London in the 1580s
SARA BRADLEY
3 The visualisation of God’s flesh; defending the indefensible in Byzantine art c. 690-890
GEORGIA MICHAEL
Part II: Religious Conflict in local contexts
4 The Curious Case of the Cartmel Cross-dresser. Recusants, Revelry and Resistance in Lancashire, 1604
JONATHAN HEALEY
5 ‘No Small Inconvenience’: Violence at Church in Scotland 1550-1650
ALFRED JOHNSON
6 Outrages in the church: religious violence in English and Welsh parishes after the Civil Wars
FIONA MCCALL
Part III Religion, Gender and Authority
7 Mistress and Minister: Margaret Fell, her estate, and conflict with the “powers that be”
KRISTIANNA POLDER
8 Consent, Clandestinity and Conflict. Old stories, new understandings – matrimonial litigation in the early Sixteenth-Century diocese of Lincoln
MARTIN ROBERTS
9 Papa don’t Preach: Abortion and ‘womanly sin’ in the morality plays of early modern Mexico
AMY FULLER
Part IV: Religion and Conflict in the City
10 “Differences and Discordes”: Conflict between Civic and Ecclesiastical Authorities in Late Medieval Salisbury, 1302-1539
SAMUEL LANE
11 A Very Roman Affair: Conflict and disorder in the Eternal city 1433-1533
KATHARINE FELLOWS
12 Loyalty to the Church, Loyalty to the Duke: Conflicts of Power in Late Medieval Ferrara
BEATRICE SALETTI
Part V Legitimising Religious Warfare
13 Knights of Malta and the Spirituality of Warfare 1530-1798
MATTHIAS EBEJER
14 British Dragonnades? The Army and Religious Persecution in Restoration Britain, 1660–88
PING LIAO
15 ‘A New Approach to Just and Holy Warfare: The Complicated Case of Puritan Violence’
MATTHEW ROWLEY
Conclusion
MARTYN BENNETT
This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading and masculinity, focusing on ... more This volume presents the first substantial exploration of crusading and masculinity, focusing on the varied ways in which the symbiotic relationship between the two was made manifest in a range of medieval settings and sources, and to what ends. Ideas about masculinity formed an inherent part of the mindset of societies in which crusading happened, and of the conceptual framework informing both those who recorded the events and those who participated. Examination and interrogation of these ideas enables a better contextualised analysis of how those events were experienced, comprehended and portrayed. The collection is structured around five themes: sources and models; contrasting masculinities; emasculation and transgression; masculinity and religiosity and kingship and chivalry. By incorporating masculinity within their analysis of the crusades and of crusaders the contributors demonstrate how such approaches greatly enhance our understanding of crusading as an ideal, an institution and an experience. Individual essays consider western campaigns to the Middle East and Islamic responses; events and sources from the Iberian peninsula and Prussia are also interrogated and re-examined, thus enabling cross-cultural comparison of the meanings attached to medieval manhood. The collection also highlights the value of employing gender as a vital means of assessing relationships between different groups of men, whose values and standards of behaviour were socially and culturally constructed in distinct ways.
Narratives of crusading have often been overlooked as a source for the history of women because o... more Narratives of crusading have often been overlooked as a source for the history of women because of their focus on martial events, and perceptions about women inhibiting the recruitment and progress of crusading armies. Yet women consistently appeared in the histories of crusade and settlement, performing a variety of roles. While some were vilified as 'useless mouths' or prostitutes, others undertook menial tasks for the army, went on crusade with retinues of their own knights, and rose to political prominence in the Levant and and the West.
This book compares perceptions of women from a wide range of historical narratives including those eyewitness accounts, lay histories and monastic chronicles that pertained to major crusade expeditions and the settler society in the Holy Land. It addresses how authors used events involving women and stereotypes based on gender, family role, and social status in writing their histories: how they blended historia and fabula, speculated on women's motivations, and occasionally granted them a literary voice in order to connect with their audience, impart moral advice, and justify the crusade ideal.
Editorial by Natasha R Hodgson
*NEW* Advances in Crusades Research: Call for Book Proposals
Routledge are currently seeking boo... more *NEW* Advances in Crusades Research: Call for Book Proposals
Routledge are currently seeking book proposals for the series Advances in Crusades Research. Its aim is to provide a forum for specialist scholars working on single or joint-authored monographs of c. 80-120,000 words which relate to crusading and its ideology wherever the crusades had an impact on historical events and their recording. The chronological scope of the series is broad, ranging from the central middle ages into the twenty-first century, incorporating changing perceptions of the crusades and their ideology in historical contexts. The series welcomes and actively seeks proposals from scholars in all fields and disciplines related to crusade history and areas of conflict/settlement, from differing historiographical, social, economic, ideological, military, cultural and material perspectives. Contributions from Islamic, Jewish, Eastern Christian and any other relevant perspectives will be welcomed, as will cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Preference will be given to proposals employing new methodologies and exploring new subject areas which are well-researched and grounded in relevant, subject-appropriate scholarship.
For more information about the series and the proposal process, please contact the series editor, Dr. Natasha Hodgson at Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk
https://www.routledge.com/Advances-in-Crusades-Research/book-series/ACR
Proposals sought for new Routledge series Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History.
Calls for Proposals/Papers by Natasha R Hodgson
We would like to encourage proposals for papers at the fourth biennial conference held by the Cen... more We would like to encourage proposals for papers at the fourth biennial conference held by the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict at NTU. The centre aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. Papers can address conflict which relate to religion across military engagements but are also encouraged to consider social, political, cultural and economic aspects to religious conflict, exploring concepts of race, gender and colonialism, and focusing on Medieval and Early Modern global contexts (broadly defined). New approaches, interdisciplinary methodologies and digital approaches are also welcomed.
CFP Advances in Crusades Research, 2022
Advances in Crusades Research provides a forum for specialist scholars working on crusading and i... more Advances in Crusades Research provides a forum for specialist scholars working on crusading and its ideology wherever crusading had an historical impact. The chronological scope of the series is broad, extending into the twenty-first century, but the focus remains on crusade as an historical field of enquiry rather than a political one
relating explicitly to the modern day. The series welcomes and actively seeks monograph proposals from scholars in all fields and disciplines related to crusade historiography, history and areas of conflict/settlement from differing social, economic, ideological, military, cultural and material perspectives. Contributions from Islamic, Jewish, Eastern
Christian or any other relevant perspectives are welcomed, as are cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Preference will be given to proposals employing new methodologies and exploring new subject areas. For more information about contributing to the series please contact the series editor, Natasha Hodgson (natasha.hodgson@ntu.ac.uk) or Michael Greenwood at Routledge (michael.greenwood@informa.com)
Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades
Fourth Annual Symposium CFP
The Crusades: Border... more Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades
Fourth Annual Symposium CFP
The Crusades: Borders, Margins, Interfaces
Friday 28th Feb 2020, Nottingham Trent University
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers from postgraduate, ECR and established scholars from the fields of history, literature, art history, archaeology, music or any other relevant discipline. The NNSC links together scholars working on all aspects of the Crusades in the Midlands and the North of England but proposals are welcomed from anyone currently working on a related topic. Papers may consider any aspect or area of crusading activity, with a special emphasis on those which explore the theory and practice of Borders, Margins, and Interfaces in all of their variety as they relate to the history of the crusades and associated fields of enquiry.
Possible themes or topics could include, but are not limited to:
• Political and military borders, margins and interfaces.
• Encountering and experiencing borders, margins and interfaces.
• Living in border and frontier zones.
• Fluidity and fixity of borders and margins.
• Borders, margins and interfaces in material, visual and archaeological terms.
• Bordering practices and institutions.
• Belonging, exclusion and marginalisation.
• Performance of borders, margins and interfaces.
Proposals should include a title and abstract of c.200 words, together with your name, institutional affiliation, and email address to Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk by 27 January 2020. Please also list any additional equipment required for your presentation. All papers presented should last for no more than 20 minutes. This NNSC event will be co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict at NTU.
Friday 28th Feb 2020, Nottingham Trent University
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers from
... more Friday 28th Feb 2020, Nottingham Trent University
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers from
postgraduate, ECR and established scholars from the
fields of history, literature, art history, archaeology,
music or any other relevant discipline. The NNSC
links together scholars working on all aspects of the
Crusades in the Midlands and the North of England
but proposals are welcomed from anyone currently
working on a related topic. Papers may consider any
aspect or area of crusading activity, with a special
emphasis on those which explore the theory and
practice of Borders, Margins, and Interfaces in all of
their variety as they relate to the history of the
crusades and associated fields of enquiry.
The cfp has now closed, but REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! The attached poster details the forthcoming... more The cfp has now closed, but REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! The attached poster details the forthcoming biennial Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Periods conference taking place at Nottingham Trent University from Tues 9th to Thurs 11th July 2019.
The centre aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. This year's event features a special strand on Miracles, Political Authority and Violence, and plenary lectures by
Dr Chris Jones (University of Canterbury, NZ) - 'Writing and Rewriting the Wars of the Roses: the Canterbury Roll'
Prof. Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech, US) - ‘Miracles and Apocalypse in Fulcher of Chartres’ Historia’.
Prof. Penny Roberts (University of Warwick) – ‘God’s Warriors in the Most Christian Kingdom: a Reconsideration of the French Religious Wars’
the full conference programme including 34 additional speakers can be found at https://csrcmem.wordpress.com/conferencescalls-for-papers/conference-programme/
Registration for the event is FREE but delegates must register in order to attend. Please go to https://csrcmem.wordpress.com/conferencescalls-for-papers/conference-registration/ Postgrads an ECAs particularly welcome. Registration closes on 2 July.
Call for Papers This conference is the second biannual conference for the Centre for the Study of... more Call for Papers This conference is the second biannual conference for the Centre for the Study of Religionand Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods at NTU. The centre aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. Conflicts with religious elements incorporate not just military engagements but also social, political, cultural and economic events, forming a common strand between Medieval and Early Modern worlds. We are keen toestablish networking links with scholars and students who investigate the role of religion and conflicts with different faiths, confessions and heterodox groups, so that comparisons may contribute towards the development of new definitions and paradigms for understanding the roles played by belief in national, communal and inter-personal conflict. The conference will incorporate a broad chronological spectrum from medieval to early modern with a view to developing current research, sharing techniques, investigating new approaches and enhancing study in the wider field. It will consist of keynote and public lectures, and academic papers presented in a workshop format. Postgraduate and ECR applicants are particularly welcome.
This year we will be running a special strand on 'Miracles, Political Authority and Violence' (see additional CFP) but speakers are also invited to submit 200 word abstracts which relate to any of the following themes in the medieval to early modern range, and comparative approaches are particularly welcomed:
Religious discourse and dissentReligion and warfare/military conflictConflict relating to religiousproperty or objectsGender and religious conflictConfessional conflictConversion and conflictReligion and family conflicts:marital violence, divorce,separation, property disputesReligion and conflict in social environments, communities and networksReligious sources in conflict
There will be an opportunity to publish conference proceedings in the Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History Series for Routledge.
Abstracts should be sent to: Amy.Fuller@ntu.ac.uk by Friday 15th March 2019
Fulcher of Chartres famously remarked of early twelfth century western settlers in the Crusader S... more Fulcher of Chartres famously remarked of early twelfth century western settlers in the Crusader States: 'we who were Occidentals now have been made Orientals'. He described the processes of acculturation which had led to this transformation of collective identity, including intermarriage and the acquisition of wealth and property. This highlights the fertile ground which crusading activities and their impact offer for explorations of the construction and performance of medieval identities. Both individual and collective identities were the product of a range of socio-cultural factors, such as age, gender, status, religion, nationality and ethnicity, among others. Identity could be self-fashioned through experience and conduct, but was also imposed on individuals and groups. This symposium aims to bring together medievalists working in a range of disciplines to consider the ways in which both individual and collective identities were forged or changed by going on crusade, or by engaging with crusaders. It also seeks to examine the role of identity in determining the nature of an individual or group's experience of crusading. We invite proposals for 20 minute papers from postgraduate, ECR and established scholars from the fields of history, literature, art history, archaeology, music or any other relevant discipline. We also welcome the submission of poster presentations which will be displayed at the symposium. Papers may consider any aspect or area of crusading activity from the late eleventh to the sixteenth centuries, and might consider issues such as: The nature and construction of crusader identities. The expression of crusader identities via conduct, dress, the production of literary and material culture, etc. The influence of specific aspects of identity on the experience of crusading (e.g. age, gender, status, etc). The role of crusading in defining or supporting other aspects of identity (e.g. devotion, masculinity, family and lineage). The role of crusading in the adaptation or transformation of an individual's identity. Cross-cultural accounts and comparisons of specific aspects of individual or collective identity (e.g. religious, regional, ethnic). A title and 250 word abstract should be sent to Dr Katherine Lewis by 7 December 2018 k.lewis@hud.ac.uk Registration for the symposium will be free and will include refreshments and lunch.
"The Thirty Years' War – 400 Years On." Military History and the 'Military Revolution' in the Ear... more "The Thirty Years' War – 400 Years On." Military History and the 'Military Revolution' in the Early Seventeenth Century - 11 July 2018, NTU
Nottingham Trent University’s Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods is staging a day-long workshop to mark the beginning of the Thirty Year’s War. It will focus on the military history of the first half of the seventeenth century in Europe, a turbulent period in terms of religion, politics, and culture.
Papers (of c20 minutes duration) are invited on any subject related to the period’s military history, including but not limited to the Eighty Year’s War, the Thirty Years’ War and the Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland as well as the ’Military Revolution’.
Abstracts for papers are invited.
Please send abstracts of c250 words before preferably as a word attachment 12 noon on 30 March 2018 to:
martyn.benntt@ntu.ac.uk
Professor Martyn Bennett of the Department of History, Languages and Global Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS.
Conference notice: registration for "Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Perio... more Conference notice: registration for "Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods" at Nottingham Trent University is now open! This is the inaugural networking event for the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict (Medieval and Early Modern) at NTU. The event consists of a public lecture at Bromley House on Tuesday 11th July, followed by a two day conference on Wednesday 12th July and Thursday 13th July at NTU, featuring keynotes from Dr. Elizabeth Tingle (DMU) and Dr. Katherine Lewis (Huddersfield) plus 29 other academic and postgraduate speakers (Please see programme attached). Attendance at both events is free, but you do need to register on the CSRC website https://csrcmem.wordpress.com/
The deadline for registration is 30th June. Please note: there are seperate processes for registering for the public lecture and conference - if you wish to attend both, please make sure you register accordingly.
For any queries, please contact Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk
Call for Papers
This conference is the inaugural event for the Centre for the Study of Religion ... more Call for Papers
This conference is the inaugural event for the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods at NTU. The centre aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. Conflicts with religious elements incorporate not just military engagements but also social, political, cultural and economic events, forming a common strand between Medieval and Early Modern worlds. The conference will both launch the centre and highlight new subjects and strategies for its future development.
Current members have expertise in the Crusades and the Military Orders; Reformations and Confessional societies; the Conquest of the New World and Seventeenth Century Britain, but we are keen to establish networking links with scholars and students who investigate the role of religion and conflicts with different faiths, confessions and heterodox groups, so that comparisons may contribute towards the development of new definitions and paradigms for understanding the roles played by belief in national, communal and inter-personal conflict.
The conference will incorporate a broad chronological spectrum from medieval to early modern with a view to developing current research, sharing techniques, investigating new approaches and enhancing study in the wider field. It will consist of keynote and public lectures, and academic papers presented in a workshop format. Postgraduate and early career applicants are particularly welcome. Prospective speakers are invited to submit 200 word abstracts which broadly relate to the following themes from any period in the medieval to early modern range, and comparative approaches are particularly welcomed:
Religious discourse and dissent
Religion and warfare/military conflict
Conflict relating to religious property or objects
Gender and religious conflict
Confessional conflict
Conversion and conflict
Religion and family conflicts: marital violence, divorce, separation, property disputes
Religion and conflict in social environments, communities and networks
Religious sources in conflict
Abstracts should be sent to: Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk by Friday 7th April 2017
Although the crusades are often seen as military campaigns to the Holy Land, led by the elite and... more Although the crusades are often seen as military campaigns to the Holy Land, led by the elite and involving the military men of Europe, in reality they went to several different theatres of war including North Africa, the East Roman Empire, and within Europe itself, to France, Spain, Portugal, the many lands bordering the Baltic Sea and other places besides. They involved people from across society in terms of status, age, gender, and country of origin. The ways in which crusading was promoted, funded, written about, commemorated, remembered, and understood are also testament to the diversity of the crusading movement. The Northern Network for the Study of the Crusades welcomes submissions for papers of 15 minutes in length on topics that reflect the diverse histories of the crusading movement and related fields of study including, but not restricted to: geographical diversity; chronological diversity; diversity of sources; social, economic, religious and political diversity; and the diversity of deconstruction.
Nottingham Trent University (School of Arts and Humanities) is offering a fully funded PhD studen... more Nottingham Trent University (School of Arts and Humanities) is offering a fully funded PhD studentship for a project relating to “Religion and Conflict in the Age of the Crusades” supervised by myself and Dr. Nicholas Morton. Details of this opportunity are shown below. If you are interested in applying then please look at the application guidance and other information available on the Nottingham Trent website.
Please note: This is a separate opportunity to the AHRC Midlands 3 Cities competition, internally funded by NTU. Applicants are eligible to apply for both awards.
This is the finalised programme for the Crusading Masculinities Workshop in Zurich from 30 March ... more This is the finalised programme for the Crusading Masculinities Workshop in Zurich from 30 March to 1 April 2016. Registration is now open!
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Contributors explore miracles, political authority and violence in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, various Protestant groups, Judaism, Islam and the local religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders who interacted with Christians. The chapters are geographically expansive, with contributions ranging from confessional conflict in Poland-Lithuania to the conquest of Oceania. They examine various types of conflict such as confessional struggles, conversion attempts, assassination and war, as well as themes including diplomacy, miraculous iconography, toleration, theology and rhetoric. Together, the chapters explore the appropriation of accounts of miraculous violence that are recorded in sacred texts to reveal what partisans claimed God did in conflict, and how they claimed to know. The volume investigates theories of justified warfare, changing beliefs about the supernatural with the advent of modernity and the perceived relationship between human and divine agency.
Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History is of interest to scholars and students in several fields including religion and violence, political and military history, and theology and the reception of sacred texts in the medieval and early modern world.
Edited by Natasha Hodgson, John McCallum, Nicholas Morton and Amy Fuller
This volume consists of conference proceedings from the inaugural networking event of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods based at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. The centre was established in order to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. Tolerance, religious change and the role of religion in the resolution of conflict are also of central importance to the studies engaged in by the Centre. Conflicts with religious elements encompass not just military engagements but also social, political, cultural and economic events, forming a common strand between Medieval and Early Modern worlds. It is this multi-faceted nature of religion and conflict which has allowed for the development of a centre which focusses on these themes at Nottingham Trent University. The research undertaken in the centre is innovative and wide ranging in form. It has a high degree of international coverage and comprises half a millennium. The subjects under scrutiny here relate to major themes such as gender, community, emotion, politics, society through the lens of work on the crusades, confessionalism, wars of religion and civil war. Alongside this world-class research the centre has a serious commitment to public communication. The 2017 conference incorporated a broad chronological spectrum from medieval to early modern with a view to developing current research, sharing techniques, investigating new approaches and enhancing study in the wider field. The resulting articles put forward for publication examine ideas about religion and conflict in the context of text and identity, church and state, civic environments, marriage, the parish, heresy, gender, dialogues, war and finance, and Holy War.
This collection investigates the relationship between religion and conflict from the seventh to eighteenth centuries and from a variety of historical and geographical perspectives ranging from Byzantium to post-conquest Mexico. It explores the vocabularies and mediums for the integration of religion into situations of conflict in diverse historical contexts. Both written and visual expressions of religion at times of conflict are explored, establishing the use of religion in propaganda and polemic as key to the formation of identities. It takes a focused look at religious expressions of conflict at a localised level: including studies on the use of language in legal and clerical contexts to influence social behaviours relating to comportment, marriage and sedition. It also explores spatial expressions of religious conflict within medieval and early modern urban environments, and through travel and pilgrimage. The final section of this collection examines the use of religion to legitimise the use of violence, to underpin its spiritual value and to rationalise the enforcement of social rules.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
NATASHA HODGSON AND AMY FULLER
Part I: Propaganda, Polemic and Religious Identities
1 Religion and Conflict, Conflict and Religion: Long-Distance Pilgrimage and the (Re)building of Catholic Identity in an Era of Religious War in France 1550-1650.
ELIZABETH TINGLE
2 Identity and Empire: Anti-Spanish sentiment in news and travel pamphlets printed in London in the 1580s
SARA BRADLEY
3 The visualisation of God’s flesh; defending the indefensible in Byzantine art c. 690-890
GEORGIA MICHAEL
Part II: Religious Conflict in local contexts
4 The Curious Case of the Cartmel Cross-dresser. Recusants, Revelry and Resistance in Lancashire, 1604
JONATHAN HEALEY
5 ‘No Small Inconvenience’: Violence at Church in Scotland 1550-1650
ALFRED JOHNSON
6 Outrages in the church: religious violence in English and Welsh parishes after the Civil Wars
FIONA MCCALL
Part III Religion, Gender and Authority
7 Mistress and Minister: Margaret Fell, her estate, and conflict with the “powers that be”
KRISTIANNA POLDER
8 Consent, Clandestinity and Conflict. Old stories, new understandings – matrimonial litigation in the early Sixteenth-Century diocese of Lincoln
MARTIN ROBERTS
9 Papa don’t Preach: Abortion and ‘womanly sin’ in the morality plays of early modern Mexico
AMY FULLER
Part IV: Religion and Conflict in the City
10 “Differences and Discordes”: Conflict between Civic and Ecclesiastical Authorities in Late Medieval Salisbury, 1302-1539
SAMUEL LANE
11 A Very Roman Affair: Conflict and disorder in the Eternal city 1433-1533
KATHARINE FELLOWS
12 Loyalty to the Church, Loyalty to the Duke: Conflicts of Power in Late Medieval Ferrara
BEATRICE SALETTI
Part V Legitimising Religious Warfare
13 Knights of Malta and the Spirituality of Warfare 1530-1798
MATTHIAS EBEJER
14 British Dragonnades? The Army and Religious Persecution in Restoration Britain, 1660–88
PING LIAO
15 ‘A New Approach to Just and Holy Warfare: The Complicated Case of Puritan Violence’
MATTHEW ROWLEY
Conclusion
MARTYN BENNETT
This book compares perceptions of women from a wide range of historical narratives including those eyewitness accounts, lay histories and monastic chronicles that pertained to major crusade expeditions and the settler society in the Holy Land. It addresses how authors used events involving women and stereotypes based on gender, family role, and social status in writing their histories: how they blended historia and fabula, speculated on women's motivations, and occasionally granted them a literary voice in order to connect with their audience, impart moral advice, and justify the crusade ideal.
Editorial by Natasha R Hodgson
Routledge are currently seeking book proposals for the series Advances in Crusades Research. Its aim is to provide a forum for specialist scholars working on single or joint-authored monographs of c. 80-120,000 words which relate to crusading and its ideology wherever the crusades had an impact on historical events and their recording. The chronological scope of the series is broad, ranging from the central middle ages into the twenty-first century, incorporating changing perceptions of the crusades and their ideology in historical contexts. The series welcomes and actively seeks proposals from scholars in all fields and disciplines related to crusade history and areas of conflict/settlement, from differing historiographical, social, economic, ideological, military, cultural and material perspectives. Contributions from Islamic, Jewish, Eastern Christian and any other relevant perspectives will be welcomed, as will cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Preference will be given to proposals employing new methodologies and exploring new subject areas which are well-researched and grounded in relevant, subject-appropriate scholarship.
For more information about the series and the proposal process, please contact the series editor, Dr. Natasha Hodgson at Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk
https://www.routledge.com/Advances-in-Crusades-Research/book-series/ACR
Calls for Proposals/Papers by Natasha R Hodgson
relating explicitly to the modern day. The series welcomes and actively seeks monograph proposals from scholars in all fields and disciplines related to crusade historiography, history and areas of conflict/settlement from differing social, economic, ideological, military, cultural and material perspectives. Contributions from Islamic, Jewish, Eastern
Christian or any other relevant perspectives are welcomed, as are cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Preference will be given to proposals employing new methodologies and exploring new subject areas. For more information about contributing to the series please contact the series editor, Natasha Hodgson (natasha.hodgson@ntu.ac.uk) or Michael Greenwood at Routledge (michael.greenwood@informa.com)
Fourth Annual Symposium CFP
The Crusades: Borders, Margins, Interfaces
Friday 28th Feb 2020, Nottingham Trent University
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers from postgraduate, ECR and established scholars from the fields of history, literature, art history, archaeology, music or any other relevant discipline. The NNSC links together scholars working on all aspects of the Crusades in the Midlands and the North of England but proposals are welcomed from anyone currently working on a related topic. Papers may consider any aspect or area of crusading activity, with a special emphasis on those which explore the theory and practice of Borders, Margins, and Interfaces in all of their variety as they relate to the history of the crusades and associated fields of enquiry.
Possible themes or topics could include, but are not limited to:
• Political and military borders, margins and interfaces.
• Encountering and experiencing borders, margins and interfaces.
• Living in border and frontier zones.
• Fluidity and fixity of borders and margins.
• Borders, margins and interfaces in material, visual and archaeological terms.
• Bordering practices and institutions.
• Belonging, exclusion and marginalisation.
• Performance of borders, margins and interfaces.
Proposals should include a title and abstract of c.200 words, together with your name, institutional affiliation, and email address to Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk by 27 January 2020. Please also list any additional equipment required for your presentation. All papers presented should last for no more than 20 minutes. This NNSC event will be co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict at NTU.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers from
postgraduate, ECR and established scholars from the
fields of history, literature, art history, archaeology,
music or any other relevant discipline. The NNSC
links together scholars working on all aspects of the
Crusades in the Midlands and the North of England
but proposals are welcomed from anyone currently
working on a related topic. Papers may consider any
aspect or area of crusading activity, with a special
emphasis on those which explore the theory and
practice of Borders, Margins, and Interfaces in all of
their variety as they relate to the history of the
crusades and associated fields of enquiry.
The centre aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. This year's event features a special strand on Miracles, Political Authority and Violence, and plenary lectures by
Dr Chris Jones (University of Canterbury, NZ) - 'Writing and Rewriting the Wars of the Roses: the Canterbury Roll'
Prof. Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech, US) - ‘Miracles and Apocalypse in Fulcher of Chartres’ Historia’.
Prof. Penny Roberts (University of Warwick) – ‘God’s Warriors in the Most Christian Kingdom: a Reconsideration of the French Religious Wars’
the full conference programme including 34 additional speakers can be found at https://csrcmem.wordpress.com/conferencescalls-for-papers/conference-programme/
Registration for the event is FREE but delegates must register in order to attend. Please go to https://csrcmem.wordpress.com/conferencescalls-for-papers/conference-registration/ Postgrads an ECAs particularly welcome. Registration closes on 2 July.
This year we will be running a special strand on 'Miracles, Political Authority and Violence' (see additional CFP) but speakers are also invited to submit 200 word abstracts which relate to any of the following themes in the medieval to early modern range, and comparative approaches are particularly welcomed:
Religious discourse and dissentReligion and warfare/military conflictConflict relating to religiousproperty or objectsGender and religious conflictConfessional conflictConversion and conflictReligion and family conflicts:marital violence, divorce,separation, property disputesReligion and conflict in social environments, communities and networksReligious sources in conflict
There will be an opportunity to publish conference proceedings in the Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History Series for Routledge.
Abstracts should be sent to: Amy.Fuller@ntu.ac.uk by Friday 15th March 2019
Nottingham Trent University’s Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods is staging a day-long workshop to mark the beginning of the Thirty Year’s War. It will focus on the military history of the first half of the seventeenth century in Europe, a turbulent period in terms of religion, politics, and culture.
Papers (of c20 minutes duration) are invited on any subject related to the period’s military history, including but not limited to the Eighty Year’s War, the Thirty Years’ War and the Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland as well as the ’Military Revolution’.
Abstracts for papers are invited.
Please send abstracts of c250 words before preferably as a word attachment 12 noon on 30 March 2018 to:
martyn.benntt@ntu.ac.uk
Professor Martyn Bennett of the Department of History, Languages and Global Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS.
The deadline for registration is 30th June. Please note: there are seperate processes for registering for the public lecture and conference - if you wish to attend both, please make sure you register accordingly.
For any queries, please contact Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk
This conference is the inaugural event for the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods at NTU. The centre aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. Conflicts with religious elements incorporate not just military engagements but also social, political, cultural and economic events, forming a common strand between Medieval and Early Modern worlds. The conference will both launch the centre and highlight new subjects and strategies for its future development.
Current members have expertise in the Crusades and the Military Orders; Reformations and Confessional societies; the Conquest of the New World and Seventeenth Century Britain, but we are keen to establish networking links with scholars and students who investigate the role of religion and conflicts with different faiths, confessions and heterodox groups, so that comparisons may contribute towards the development of new definitions and paradigms for understanding the roles played by belief in national, communal and inter-personal conflict.
The conference will incorporate a broad chronological spectrum from medieval to early modern with a view to developing current research, sharing techniques, investigating new approaches and enhancing study in the wider field. It will consist of keynote and public lectures, and academic papers presented in a workshop format. Postgraduate and early career applicants are particularly welcome. Prospective speakers are invited to submit 200 word abstracts which broadly relate to the following themes from any period in the medieval to early modern range, and comparative approaches are particularly welcomed:
Religious discourse and dissent
Religion and warfare/military conflict
Conflict relating to religious property or objects
Gender and religious conflict
Confessional conflict
Conversion and conflict
Religion and family conflicts: marital violence, divorce, separation, property disputes
Religion and conflict in social environments, communities and networks
Religious sources in conflict
Abstracts should be sent to: Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk by Friday 7th April 2017
Please note: This is a separate opportunity to the AHRC Midlands 3 Cities competition, internally funded by NTU. Applicants are eligible to apply for both awards.
Contributors explore miracles, political authority and violence in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, various Protestant groups, Judaism, Islam and the local religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders who interacted with Christians. The chapters are geographically expansive, with contributions ranging from confessional conflict in Poland-Lithuania to the conquest of Oceania. They examine various types of conflict such as confessional struggles, conversion attempts, assassination and war, as well as themes including diplomacy, miraculous iconography, toleration, theology and rhetoric. Together, the chapters explore the appropriation of accounts of miraculous violence that are recorded in sacred texts to reveal what partisans claimed God did in conflict, and how they claimed to know. The volume investigates theories of justified warfare, changing beliefs about the supernatural with the advent of modernity and the perceived relationship between human and divine agency.
Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History is of interest to scholars and students in several fields including religion and violence, political and military history, and theology and the reception of sacred texts in the medieval and early modern world.
Edited by Natasha Hodgson, John McCallum, Nicholas Morton and Amy Fuller
This volume consists of conference proceedings from the inaugural networking event of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods based at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. The centre was established in order to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. Tolerance, religious change and the role of religion in the resolution of conflict are also of central importance to the studies engaged in by the Centre. Conflicts with religious elements encompass not just military engagements but also social, political, cultural and economic events, forming a common strand between Medieval and Early Modern worlds. It is this multi-faceted nature of religion and conflict which has allowed for the development of a centre which focusses on these themes at Nottingham Trent University. The research undertaken in the centre is innovative and wide ranging in form. It has a high degree of international coverage and comprises half a millennium. The subjects under scrutiny here relate to major themes such as gender, community, emotion, politics, society through the lens of work on the crusades, confessionalism, wars of religion and civil war. Alongside this world-class research the centre has a serious commitment to public communication. The 2017 conference incorporated a broad chronological spectrum from medieval to early modern with a view to developing current research, sharing techniques, investigating new approaches and enhancing study in the wider field. The resulting articles put forward for publication examine ideas about religion and conflict in the context of text and identity, church and state, civic environments, marriage, the parish, heresy, gender, dialogues, war and finance, and Holy War.
This collection investigates the relationship between religion and conflict from the seventh to eighteenth centuries and from a variety of historical and geographical perspectives ranging from Byzantium to post-conquest Mexico. It explores the vocabularies and mediums for the integration of religion into situations of conflict in diverse historical contexts. Both written and visual expressions of religion at times of conflict are explored, establishing the use of religion in propaganda and polemic as key to the formation of identities. It takes a focused look at religious expressions of conflict at a localised level: including studies on the use of language in legal and clerical contexts to influence social behaviours relating to comportment, marriage and sedition. It also explores spatial expressions of religious conflict within medieval and early modern urban environments, and through travel and pilgrimage. The final section of this collection examines the use of religion to legitimise the use of violence, to underpin its spiritual value and to rationalise the enforcement of social rules.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
NATASHA HODGSON AND AMY FULLER
Part I: Propaganda, Polemic and Religious Identities
1 Religion and Conflict, Conflict and Religion: Long-Distance Pilgrimage and the (Re)building of Catholic Identity in an Era of Religious War in France 1550-1650.
ELIZABETH TINGLE
2 Identity and Empire: Anti-Spanish sentiment in news and travel pamphlets printed in London in the 1580s
SARA BRADLEY
3 The visualisation of God’s flesh; defending the indefensible in Byzantine art c. 690-890
GEORGIA MICHAEL
Part II: Religious Conflict in local contexts
4 The Curious Case of the Cartmel Cross-dresser. Recusants, Revelry and Resistance in Lancashire, 1604
JONATHAN HEALEY
5 ‘No Small Inconvenience’: Violence at Church in Scotland 1550-1650
ALFRED JOHNSON
6 Outrages in the church: religious violence in English and Welsh parishes after the Civil Wars
FIONA MCCALL
Part III Religion, Gender and Authority
7 Mistress and Minister: Margaret Fell, her estate, and conflict with the “powers that be”
KRISTIANNA POLDER
8 Consent, Clandestinity and Conflict. Old stories, new understandings – matrimonial litigation in the early Sixteenth-Century diocese of Lincoln
MARTIN ROBERTS
9 Papa don’t Preach: Abortion and ‘womanly sin’ in the morality plays of early modern Mexico
AMY FULLER
Part IV: Religion and Conflict in the City
10 “Differences and Discordes”: Conflict between Civic and Ecclesiastical Authorities in Late Medieval Salisbury, 1302-1539
SAMUEL LANE
11 A Very Roman Affair: Conflict and disorder in the Eternal city 1433-1533
KATHARINE FELLOWS
12 Loyalty to the Church, Loyalty to the Duke: Conflicts of Power in Late Medieval Ferrara
BEATRICE SALETTI
Part V Legitimising Religious Warfare
13 Knights of Malta and the Spirituality of Warfare 1530-1798
MATTHIAS EBEJER
14 British Dragonnades? The Army and Religious Persecution in Restoration Britain, 1660–88
PING LIAO
15 ‘A New Approach to Just and Holy Warfare: The Complicated Case of Puritan Violence’
MATTHEW ROWLEY
Conclusion
MARTYN BENNETT
This book compares perceptions of women from a wide range of historical narratives including those eyewitness accounts, lay histories and monastic chronicles that pertained to major crusade expeditions and the settler society in the Holy Land. It addresses how authors used events involving women and stereotypes based on gender, family role, and social status in writing their histories: how they blended historia and fabula, speculated on women's motivations, and occasionally granted them a literary voice in order to connect with their audience, impart moral advice, and justify the crusade ideal.
Routledge are currently seeking book proposals for the series Advances in Crusades Research. Its aim is to provide a forum for specialist scholars working on single or joint-authored monographs of c. 80-120,000 words which relate to crusading and its ideology wherever the crusades had an impact on historical events and their recording. The chronological scope of the series is broad, ranging from the central middle ages into the twenty-first century, incorporating changing perceptions of the crusades and their ideology in historical contexts. The series welcomes and actively seeks proposals from scholars in all fields and disciplines related to crusade history and areas of conflict/settlement, from differing historiographical, social, economic, ideological, military, cultural and material perspectives. Contributions from Islamic, Jewish, Eastern Christian and any other relevant perspectives will be welcomed, as will cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Preference will be given to proposals employing new methodologies and exploring new subject areas which are well-researched and grounded in relevant, subject-appropriate scholarship.
For more information about the series and the proposal process, please contact the series editor, Dr. Natasha Hodgson at Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk
https://www.routledge.com/Advances-in-Crusades-Research/book-series/ACR
relating explicitly to the modern day. The series welcomes and actively seeks monograph proposals from scholars in all fields and disciplines related to crusade historiography, history and areas of conflict/settlement from differing social, economic, ideological, military, cultural and material perspectives. Contributions from Islamic, Jewish, Eastern
Christian or any other relevant perspectives are welcomed, as are cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Preference will be given to proposals employing new methodologies and exploring new subject areas. For more information about contributing to the series please contact the series editor, Natasha Hodgson (natasha.hodgson@ntu.ac.uk) or Michael Greenwood at Routledge (michael.greenwood@informa.com)
Fourth Annual Symposium CFP
The Crusades: Borders, Margins, Interfaces
Friday 28th Feb 2020, Nottingham Trent University
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers from postgraduate, ECR and established scholars from the fields of history, literature, art history, archaeology, music or any other relevant discipline. The NNSC links together scholars working on all aspects of the Crusades in the Midlands and the North of England but proposals are welcomed from anyone currently working on a related topic. Papers may consider any aspect or area of crusading activity, with a special emphasis on those which explore the theory and practice of Borders, Margins, and Interfaces in all of their variety as they relate to the history of the crusades and associated fields of enquiry.
Possible themes or topics could include, but are not limited to:
• Political and military borders, margins and interfaces.
• Encountering and experiencing borders, margins and interfaces.
• Living in border and frontier zones.
• Fluidity and fixity of borders and margins.
• Borders, margins and interfaces in material, visual and archaeological terms.
• Bordering practices and institutions.
• Belonging, exclusion and marginalisation.
• Performance of borders, margins and interfaces.
Proposals should include a title and abstract of c.200 words, together with your name, institutional affiliation, and email address to Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk by 27 January 2020. Please also list any additional equipment required for your presentation. All papers presented should last for no more than 20 minutes. This NNSC event will be co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict at NTU.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers from
postgraduate, ECR and established scholars from the
fields of history, literature, art history, archaeology,
music or any other relevant discipline. The NNSC
links together scholars working on all aspects of the
Crusades in the Midlands and the North of England
but proposals are welcomed from anyone currently
working on a related topic. Papers may consider any
aspect or area of crusading activity, with a special
emphasis on those which explore the theory and
practice of Borders, Margins, and Interfaces in all of
their variety as they relate to the history of the
crusades and associated fields of enquiry.
The centre aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. This year's event features a special strand on Miracles, Political Authority and Violence, and plenary lectures by
Dr Chris Jones (University of Canterbury, NZ) - 'Writing and Rewriting the Wars of the Roses: the Canterbury Roll'
Prof. Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech, US) - ‘Miracles and Apocalypse in Fulcher of Chartres’ Historia’.
Prof. Penny Roberts (University of Warwick) – ‘God’s Warriors in the Most Christian Kingdom: a Reconsideration of the French Religious Wars’
the full conference programme including 34 additional speakers can be found at https://csrcmem.wordpress.com/conferencescalls-for-papers/conference-programme/
Registration for the event is FREE but delegates must register in order to attend. Please go to https://csrcmem.wordpress.com/conferencescalls-for-papers/conference-registration/ Postgrads an ECAs particularly welcome. Registration closes on 2 July.
This year we will be running a special strand on 'Miracles, Political Authority and Violence' (see additional CFP) but speakers are also invited to submit 200 word abstracts which relate to any of the following themes in the medieval to early modern range, and comparative approaches are particularly welcomed:
Religious discourse and dissentReligion and warfare/military conflictConflict relating to religiousproperty or objectsGender and religious conflictConfessional conflictConversion and conflictReligion and family conflicts:marital violence, divorce,separation, property disputesReligion and conflict in social environments, communities and networksReligious sources in conflict
There will be an opportunity to publish conference proceedings in the Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History Series for Routledge.
Abstracts should be sent to: Amy.Fuller@ntu.ac.uk by Friday 15th March 2019
Nottingham Trent University’s Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods is staging a day-long workshop to mark the beginning of the Thirty Year’s War. It will focus on the military history of the first half of the seventeenth century in Europe, a turbulent period in terms of religion, politics, and culture.
Papers (of c20 minutes duration) are invited on any subject related to the period’s military history, including but not limited to the Eighty Year’s War, the Thirty Years’ War and the Civil Wars in Britain and Ireland as well as the ’Military Revolution’.
Abstracts for papers are invited.
Please send abstracts of c250 words before preferably as a word attachment 12 noon on 30 March 2018 to:
martyn.benntt@ntu.ac.uk
Professor Martyn Bennett of the Department of History, Languages and Global Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS.
The deadline for registration is 30th June. Please note: there are seperate processes for registering for the public lecture and conference - if you wish to attend both, please make sure you register accordingly.
For any queries, please contact Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk
This conference is the inaugural event for the Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods at NTU. The centre aims to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods. Conflicts with religious elements incorporate not just military engagements but also social, political, cultural and economic events, forming a common strand between Medieval and Early Modern worlds. The conference will both launch the centre and highlight new subjects and strategies for its future development.
Current members have expertise in the Crusades and the Military Orders; Reformations and Confessional societies; the Conquest of the New World and Seventeenth Century Britain, but we are keen to establish networking links with scholars and students who investigate the role of religion and conflicts with different faiths, confessions and heterodox groups, so that comparisons may contribute towards the development of new definitions and paradigms for understanding the roles played by belief in national, communal and inter-personal conflict.
The conference will incorporate a broad chronological spectrum from medieval to early modern with a view to developing current research, sharing techniques, investigating new approaches and enhancing study in the wider field. It will consist of keynote and public lectures, and academic papers presented in a workshop format. Postgraduate and early career applicants are particularly welcome. Prospective speakers are invited to submit 200 word abstracts which broadly relate to the following themes from any period in the medieval to early modern range, and comparative approaches are particularly welcomed:
Religious discourse and dissent
Religion and warfare/military conflict
Conflict relating to religious property or objects
Gender and religious conflict
Confessional conflict
Conversion and conflict
Religion and family conflicts: marital violence, divorce, separation, property disputes
Religion and conflict in social environments, communities and networks
Religious sources in conflict
Abstracts should be sent to: Natasha.Hodgson@ntu.ac.uk by Friday 7th April 2017
Please note: This is a separate opportunity to the AHRC Midlands 3 Cities competition, internally funded by NTU. Applicants are eligible to apply for both awards.
Co-authors Dr. Frank and Mrs. Caroline Thorn
For full abstract please see the following link to UK Data Service: http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue?sn=5694