Sponsored by Wayne State University, Miami University, and Kent State University, with additional support from Ohio State University; and organized by Ronald Corthell, Kent State University; Frances E. Dolan, Miami University; Christopher Haley, Ohio State University; and Arthur Marotti, Wayne State University.
This conference resulted in the proceedings publication Catholic Culture in Early Modern England, ed. by Ronald Corthell, Frances E. Dolan, Christopher Highly, and Arthur F. Marotti (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
Friday schedule | Saturday schedule
Friday, October 11
Plenary Speaker
Introduction: Arthur Marotti, Wayne State University
Catholic Spaces
Peter Davidson, University of Aberdeen
Session 1: Catholicism and Material Culture
Chair: Ronald Corthell, Kent State University (now at Purdue University Calumet)
Material Culture and Recusant Studies
Patricia Bruckman, University of Toronto, now emerita
Rich Embroidered Churchstuff: The Vestments of Helena Wintour
Sophie Holroyd, University of Warwick
“Hypocritical and abominable, idolatrous pyctures”: Elizabethan Catholics and Devotional Imagery
Richard L. Williams, Birbeck College, London
Session 2: Recusancy and Gender
Chair: Kari McBride, University of Arizona
Gender and Recusant Melancholia in Robert Southwell’s Mary Magdalene’s Funeral Tears
Gary Kuchar, McMaster University
Women Catholics and Latin Culture
Jane Stevenson, University of Aberdeen
Rethinking the Boundaries between Religious and Laywomen
Colleen M. Seguin, Valparaiso University
St. Teresa of Avila, Abraham Woodhead and Bishop Stillingfleet: The Reconstruction of a Forgotten Controversy
Kathleen Spinnenweber, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Session 3: Images of Catholicism in Peace and War
Chair: Frances Dolan, Miami University (now at University of California, Davis)
Henrietta Maria as Performer and Politique
Melinda Gough, Oklahoma State University (now at McMaster University)
Was Henrietta Maria French?
Caroline Hibbard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, now emerita
Queen Henrietta Maria and The King’s Cabinet Opened
Michelle White, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Saturday, October 12
Session 4: Confessional and National Identities
Chair: Christopher Highley, Ohio State University
The English Roman Life: Representing the English Catholic Diaspora in Early Modern Europe
Mark Netzloff, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Lives of Women Saints of Our Countrie of England: Gender and Nationalism in Recusant Hagiography
Catherine Sanok, University of Michigan
International Religious Politics and the Chivalric Romance, 1588-1596: Another Look at Anthony Munday and Edmund Spenser
Donna Hamilton, University of Maryland
“Transcribed and compared”: Manuscript Transmission of the Treatises of Father Augustine Baker
Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library
Session 5: Catholicism and/on the Stage
Chair: Ronald Corthell, Kent State University (now at Purdue University Calumet)
“Martyremnon facit poena”: Reading Executions of English Catholics through Dekker and Massinger’s The Virgin Martyr
Nova Myhill, New College of Florida
Idolatry, Gender, and Religious Difference in English Renaissance Drama
Jennie Evenson, University of Michigan (now at Pepperdine University)
Queen Henrietta Maria, James Shirley and the Shaping of an Oppositional Religion
Rebecca Bailey, Birbeck College, London (now at University of Gloucestershire)
Session 6: Religious Biography and Autobiography
Chair: Arthur Marotti, Wayne State University, now emeritus
Alabaster’s Conversion and the Reassessment of Autobiography
Holly Crawford, University of California, Los Angeles (now at Washington and Lee University)
“Now I arne a Catholique”: William Alabaster, Toby Matthew, and the Early Modern Catholic Conversion Narrative
Molly Murray, Yale University
Technologies of Biography: Structural Rhetoric in Allen’s XII Reverend Priests
Alice Dailey, University of California, Los Angeles (now at Villanove University)
Father John Gerard’s Object Lessons: Relics and Catholic Devotional Objects in Autobiography of a Hunted Priest
Anne Myers, University of California, Los Angeles (now at University of Missouri)
Session 7: Panel Discussion
Ronald Corthell, Kent State University (now at Purdue University Calumet)
Frances Dolan, Miami University (now at University of California, Davis)
hristopher Highley, Ohio State University
Arthur Marotti, Wayne State University
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