Catholicism, Reform & the Reformation in Scotland: Renaissance to Modernity
About this Event
The Network for the Study of the Long Reformation (School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh) and the Scottish Catholic Historical Association, with the support of the Scottish Church History Society, are pleased to invite you to attend our joint summer workshop, which will be held both in person and online. Please see below for a copy of the programme.
Thanks to the generous funding of the Hope Trust, this event is free to attend, but registration is required. For catering purposes, registration is requested by Wednesday 15 July. Tea, coffee and a sandwich lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. Online joining details will be provided after registration.
We look forward to welcoming you. Please contact Dr Felicity Loughlin ([email protected]) or Dr Simon Burton ([email protected]) with any enquiries or dietary requirements.
We regret that, due to pending construction work, John Sinclair House is currently only accessible by stairs.
Programme
10am: Registration & Coffee
10.15am: Opening Remarks
10.30am-12pm: Session 1 – Catholicism and Reform in Renaissance Europe
Dr William Hyland (St Andrews): “The collaboration of Thomas Livingston and Nicholas of Cusa in the German Reform Legation journey of 1451-52.”
Dr Simon Burton (Edinburgh) – “Scotland’s Marginal Renaissance: A Proposal for Research.”
Dr Giovanni Gellera (Geneva): “An Oracle, a Theologaster, or both? John Mair among the Protestants Online Presenter
12pm-1pm: Lunch
1-2.30pm: Session 2 – Catholics, Protestants and the Reformation in Early Modern Scotland
Dr Louise-Aurore Ebongue Bonny (Durham), ‘Mary of Guise and the Pre-Reformation Rebellion Crisis in Scotland, 1558-59’
Shantelle Clement (Central Florida) ‘“Permission…Not Law”: Mary Stuart and Scotland's Negotiated Confessional Settlement, 1560–1567’ Online Presenter
Emily Price (Independent Researcher), ‘“This Tenne Thousand Times Polluted Chappell”: An Italian Shrine in the Scottish Imagination’
2.30-2.45pm: Tea & Coffee Break
2.45-4.15pm: Session 3 – Catholicism, Protestantism and Reformation Legacies in Modern Scotland
Dr Felicity Loughlin (Edinburgh): ‘Scottish Historiography, the Reformation and Christian Pluralism in Victorian Scotland’
Ching-Ming Wang (Darwin College, Cambridge), ‘Civil Allegiance after the Reformation: Gladstone, Newman and the Question of Catholic Loyalty in Scotland, 1874-8’. Online Presenter
Dr Gemma King (Edinburgh): “The Virgin Mary in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Presbyterian Worship and Thought”
4.15-4.30pm: Closing Remarks
Workshop Aims:
The Protestant Reformation of 1560 was a watershed moment in Scottish history, which profoundly shaped the nation’s religious, intellectual, cultural and political life. Yet the extent to which this Reformation emerged in dialogue with flourishing movements of Catholic Renaissance and reform as well as in reaction to them has scarcely been charted. Further research is also needed into the ongoing history and mutual shaping of Scottish Protestantism and Catholicism through eras of further Reformation, Enlightenment and modernity, which had profound implications for the development of confessional and religious identities.
Focusing on Scotland’s 'Long Reformation', the workshop seeks to illuminate the importance of reform in Renaissance religious thought, and to recover the ongoing ramifications of the Reformation into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and beyond.
How did movements for reform shape Scottish Catholicism, both before and after the Reformation of 1560? In what ways did the Reformation shape perceptions of Catholicism, the Reformation, and Scotland’s religious past? And how did the Reformation shape Scotland’s religious, intellectual and cultural life from the sixteenth century into the modern age?
Where is it happening?
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