Spiritual and Secular Authority in Early Modern Europe

A two-day workshop to reflect on how ideas, models, and paradigms about Church-state relations and the role of civil authorities in matters of religion travelled across regional borders in early modern Europe.

Venue: Doctorow Hall, St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Programme:

29 September

14.00-14.30 Welcome and registration

14.30-14.45 Opening remarks

14.45-16.00 Panel 1 – The Anglo-Dutch connection

Sarah Mortimer (Oxford) – ‘The Remonstrants and the Church of England’

Polly Ha (Duke) – ‘Dualism before Descartes? Revisiting Anglo-Dutch ecclesiastical politics’

16.00-16.30 Coffee

16.30-18.15 Panel 2 – Thinkers, texts, and their reception

Marco Barducci (Pavia) – ‘Entangled contexts of Grotius’s jus circa sacra: sources, receptions, and comparisons’

Francesco Quatrini (Firenze) – ‘Johann Crell's Vindiciae pro religionis libertate (1637) from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the European context’

Colin Donnelly (Oxford) – ‘"We ought moare to obey God then men": authority in the early English and German Reformations’

18.15-19.00 Drinks reception

30 September

10.45-12.00 Panel 3 – Crossing confessional traditions

Atsuko Fukuoka (Tokyo) – ‘What does the “state of nature” concept obscure? Grotius’s attempt to systemize sources of law between the perspectives of the Salamanca School and mos geometricus’

Chiara Petrolini (Bologna) – ‘A corsair's Qur'an: Sarpi and the jurisdiction of the critic’

12.15-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.45 Panel 4 – Trends in European Catholicism

Ian Campbell (Belfast) – ‘Scotists, Jansenists and the state of nature: Bonaventure Baron on the origins of human society’

Stefania Tutino (UCLA) – ‘How long was Rome’s arm? Enforcing authority across early modern Catholic Europe’

14.45-15.15 Coffee

15.15-16.30 Panel 5 – Roots and dissemination of Reformed political ideas

Lorenzo Paoli (Geneva) – ‘Prisca politica: Pre-Roman antiquities and the origins of spiritual and temporal power in Reformation Europe’

Odile Panetta (Oxford) – ‘Higher education and the dissemination of political theology in Reformed Europe’

16.30-17.00 Coffee

17.00-18.00 Roundtable discussion