Lionel Laborie Congrès Early Modern Prophécies Conference 2014

Early Modern Prophecies Conference VeranstalterLionel Laborie, Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London - Bis26.06.2014 - 28.06.2014 Programm Thursday, 26 June, 2014 09.00-9.45 Registration and coffee 9.45-10.00 WELCOME 10.00-11.30 Panel 1 (LG01) ISLAM IN WESTERN EUROPE Chair: Mercedes García-Arenal (Madrid) Vincent Masse (Dalhousie) – ‘Foreign News and Prophecies: The Dreams of the Great Turk in French News Bulletins, 1529-1614’ Justin Meggitt (Cambridge) – ‘Prophecy, Early Quakers and Constructions of Islam in the Seventeenth Century’ Sinan Akilli (Ankara) – ‘The Antichrist-ian Turk in Seventeenth-Century English Public Imagination’ Panel 2 (NAB 314) ENGLAND 1 Chair: Kevin Killeen (York) Avner Shamir (Copenhagen) – ‘Predicting Bible Burning in Reformation England: between Reality and Propaganda’ Coral Stoakes (Cambridge) – ‘Catholic Apocalypticism in Post Reformation England, 1558-1606’ Adam Morton (Oxford) – ‘Marking Antichrist – Prophetic Sight and Protestant Visual Culture in England’ Panel 3 (NAB 305) PROPHECIES AND PRINT Chair: Walter Sparn (Erlangen) Courtney Kneupper (Mississippi) – ‘The Prophecy of Dietrich von Zengg and its Habsburg Connections’ Jonathan Green (North Dakota) – ‘Dietrich von Zengg in Print’ Sze Ting Chow (Beijing) – ‘Antichrist and Animals: Images Reflected in the Protestant Woodcuts during the Reformation’ 11.30-11.45 Coffee 11.45-1.15 Panel 4 (LG01) SPAIN Chair: Jacqueline Hermann (Rio de Janeiro) Maria Jordan (Yale) – ‘Between Politics, Religion and the Personal for the Street Prophets of Early Modern Spain’ Monika Frohnapfel (Mainz) – ‘Prophecies in Early Modern Spain. Religious Women and the Spanish Inquisition’ Mercedes García-Arenal (Madrid) – ‘The Uses of Prophecy: Eschatology, Dissimulation and Propaganda among the Converted Muslims of 16th century Spain’ Panel 5 (NAB 314) ENGLAND 2 Chair: Nick McDowell (Exeter) Ionut Untea (La Rochelle) – ‘“The Stone in full motion” and the Eschatological Quest for a Science of Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England’ Veronica Calsoni Lima (São Paulo) – ‘Prophetical Texts in a Bookstore at the Crown in Pope’s Head Alley (1646-1665) Samuel Robinson (Berkeley) – ‘“That Pure Spiritual Body”: Radicalism, Materialism, and Prophecy in Seventeenth-century England’ Panel 6 (NAB 305) HUGUENOTS Chair: Jo Spaans (Utrecht) Leslie Tuttle (Kansas) – ‘Apocalyptic Prophecy in the Huguenot Diaspora’ David van der Linden (Rotterdam) – ‘To Believe, or not to Believe: Debating Prophecies and Miracles in the Dutch Refuge’ Olaf Simons (Gotha) – ‘The Marquis de Langallerie and his Plans as Genralissimus of the Apocalypse’ 1.15-2.15 Lunch 2.15-4.15 Panel 7 (LG01) DUTCH REPUBLIC Chair: Olaf Simons (Gotha) Andreas Pietsch (Muenster) – ‘Using and Debating Prophecy in the Netherlands (c. 1600)’ Jetze Touber (Utrecht) – ‘Melchizedek: Prophecy, Biblical Interpretation and Pastoral Concerns in the Dutch Republic around 1700’ Mirjam de Baar (Groningen) – ‘The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prophet Johannes Rothe (1628-1702): Religious and Political Agitator’ Jo Spaans (Utrecht) – ‘Taming Prophecy in the Early Eighteenth-Century Netherlands’ Panel 8 (NAB 314) PORTUGAL Chair: Mercedes García-Arenal (Madrid) Jacqueline Hermann (Rio de Janeiro) – ‘Between Religion and Politics: D. Sebastião and the Case of the Venetian Imposter’ Marcus de Martini and Noeli Dutra Rossatto (Santa Maria) – ‘Millenarianism in the Prophetical Works of Father Antonio Vieira’ Ricardo Ventura (Lisbon) – ‘Rewriting and Drawing Prophecy in the End of the XVIIth century: Félix da Costa’s Liber Vnicus’ 4.15-4.30 Coffee 4.30-6.00 Panel 9 (LG01) ENGLAND 3 Chair: Julian Goodare (Edinburgh) Glyn Parry (Roehampton) – ‘Prophecies and Responses in Elizabethan Politics’ Nick McDowell (Exeter) – ‘Prophecy and the Praise of Folly: from Erasmus to the English Civil Wars’ Kevin Killeen (York) – ‘Selling the Poor for a Pair of Shoes (Amos 2:6): Property and Prophecy in Early Modern Thought’ Panel 10 (NAB 314) FRANCE 1 Chair: Irena Backus (Geneva) Lionel Laborie (Goldsmiths) - ‘Prophetic Movements in 18th-Century France’ Rodney Dean (Independent) – ‘Aspects of Millenarianism and the French Revolution: The Case of the Abbé Henri Grégoire, Constitutional Bishop of the Loir-et-Cher’ Jonathan Smyth (Birkbeck) – ‘Prophetesses, Parousia and Politics in Early Revolutionary France’ Panel 11 (NAB 305) GERMANY 1 Chair: Xenia von Tippelskirch (Berlin) Christopher Martinuzzi (Pisa) – ‘Prophecy and Revelation. Thomas Müntzer’s Correspondence in the Last Months of 1524-25’ Matthias Riedl (Budapest) – ‘Thomas Müntzer: The Prophet of Revolution’ Michael Driedger (Ontario) – ‘Revisiting Anabaptist Münster: Shifting the Frames for Interpreting an Infamous Episode in the History of Early Modern Prophecy and Violence’ 6.00-6.15 Break 6.15-7.30 (LG01) KEYNOTE 1 Irena Backus (Geneva) – ‘New Perspectives on Biblical Prophecies from Luther to Leibniz’ Chair: Vivienne Richmond (Goldsmiths) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, 27 June, 2014 08.30-9.00 Coffee 9.00-10.30 Panel 12 (LG01) IRELAND AND SCOTLAND Chair: Michael Riordan (Cambridge) David Finnegan (Warwick School) – ‘Prophecy as Consolation: Irish Catholic and British Protestant Understandings of Fortune’s Wheel in the Seventeenth Century’ Julian Goodare (Edinburgh) – ‘Witchcraft and Prophecy in Scotland’ Panel 13 (NAB 314) ASTROLOGY 1 Chair: H Darrel Rutkin (Erlangen) Jacques Halbronn (Paris) – ‘Nostradamus and the Eclipse of April 1567’ Mike A. Zuber (Amsterdam) – ‘‘‘God’s Extraordinary Messengers”: Comets, New Prophets and Johann Jacob Zimmermann’s Millenarianism’ IlariaAmpolini(Trento)– ‘CometsandCatastrophesintheAgeofEnlightenment: between Prophecies and Previsions’ Panel 14 (NAB 305) CENTRAL EUROPE Chair: Leigh Penman (Queensland) Vladimir Urbanek (Prague) – ‘Making of a Prophet: Mikuláš Drabík, Jan Amos Comenius and the Re-Contextualization of Prophetic Texts’ Emese Muntan (Budapest) – ‘The Relationship between the Theological and the Political in the Reformed Funeral Orations of Mid-Seventeenth Century Transylvania’ Theo Pronk (Rotterdam) – ‘War and Peace in Shadow of the Antichrist: the Nuremberg Conference of 1650’ 10.30-10.45 Coffee 10.45-12.15 Panel 15 (LG01) GERMANY 2 Chair: Sze Ting Chow (Beijing) Walter Sparn (Erlangen) – ‘Apocalyptic Time-Order and Political Prophecies in 17th C. Germany: The Case of Caspar Heunisch (1684)’ Adelisa Malena (Venice) – ‘Female Prophecy in the Gynaeceum Haeretico Fanaticum by J.H. Feustking (1704)’ Xenia von Tippelskirch (Berlin) – ‘“The Shepherd’s Bag”. Separatists in the Western Part of the Holy Roman Empire and their Prophecies (1700-1750)’ Panel 16 (NAB 314) ‘The Bible and Prophecy in Early Nineteenth-Century Thought’ Chair: Michael Ledger-Lomas (KCL, London) Theodor Dunkelgrün (CRASSH, Cambridge) – ‘Prophecy and Authorship: Closing the Pentateuch, 1500-1815’ Alison Knight (CRASSH, Cambridge) – ‘Do I Know that my Redeemer Liveth? Job 19:25-26 and Prophecy in Anglican Thought’ Gareth Atkins (CRASSH, Cambridge) – ‘“The Ships of Tarshish”: Naval Power, Prophecy and Israel in British thought, c. 1600-1815’ Panel 17 (NAB 305) MEDITERRANEAN Chair: Federico Barbierato (Verona) Lorenzo Comensoli Antonini (Padova) – ‘Prophecies in Rome at the Time of Gregory XIII and Sixtus V’ Lorenza Gianfrancesco (Royal Holloway, London) – ‘Prophecy in Naples’ Marios Hatzopoulos (Athens) – ‘Sons of Defeated Saints: Prophecy and Nationalism in Early Modern Greece and the Balkans’ 12.15-12.30 Coffee 12.30-1.30 Panel 18 (LG01) ENGLAND 4 Chair: Glyn Parry (Roehampton) Vittoria Feola (Vienna) – ‘Prophecies as Antiquities. The Antiquarian and Political Uses of Elias Ashmole’s Collection of Prophetical Works’ Jessica Sharkey (Norwich) – ‘Apparitions of the Cardinal: Thomas Wolsey and the Politics of the 1640s’ Panel 19 (NAB 314) FRANCE 2 Chair: Jacques Halbronn (Paris) Katherine Stratton (Dalhousie) – ‘The Prophecies and Politics of Guillaume Postel’s Three Wise Men’ Natalia Obukowicz (Warsaw) – ‘Lamentation of Melusine. Polemical Use of Prophecy during the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598)’ 1.30-2.15 Lunch 2.15-4.15 Panel 20 (LG01) ENGLAND 5 Chair: Vittoria Feola (Vienna) Crawford Gribben (Belfast) – ‘Revolution and Apocalypse: John Owen and the Re- Visioning of Puritan Eschatology’ Rachel Adcock (Loughborough) – ‘Baptist Women’s Experiential Writings and Fifth Monarchist Prophecy Catie Gill (Loughborough) – ‘“How doth all excess abound” (George Fox, A Warning to all in this Proud City of London [1654]): Quaker Prophecy 1650-1665’ Carme Font Paz (Barcelona) – ‘“Deare Reader, thou mayst marvell’: Seventeenth-century Prophecy and the Quest for Authorship Panel 21 (NAB 314) ITALY 1 Chair: Federico Barbierato (Verona) Ovanes Akopyan (Warwick) – ‘Praenotio vs Prophetia. Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola and the Forms of Supernatural in the Renaissance’ Francesco Lucioli (Cambridge) – ‘A Rain of Bloody Crosses: Prophecy in Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola’s Staurostichon’ Manuela Bragagnolo (Lyon) – ‘Divination, Physiognomy and Religion in Late Renaissance Italy. The “Natural Physiognomy” (Fisionomia Naturale) by Giovanni Ingegneri’ Julia Eva Wannenmacher (Berlin) – ‘Sword and Angelic Pope: Girolamo Savonarola's Prophecies and Joachim of Fiore’s Ideas of the Eternal Kingdom in George Eliot’s 'Romola’ 4.15-4.30 Coffee 4.30-6.00 Panel 22 (LG01) ENGLAND 6 Chair: Crawford Gribben (Belfast) Andrew Crome (Manchester) – ‘The Neglected Role of Prophecy in the “Jew Bill” Controversy of 1753’ Warren Johnston (Algoma) – ‘Apocalypse in the pulpit: Thanksgiving and the End in eighteenth-century England’ Jonathan Downing (Oxford) – ‘“I was carried away in a dream” - Prophets, Imagined Spaces, and the Biblical Visionary Mode’ Panel 23 (NAB 314) NORTHERN/EASTERN EUROPE Chair: Juliane Engelhardt (Copenhagen) Fabian Persson (Lund) – ‘Opportunity or Threat? Early Modern Political Prophecies’ Alexander van der Haven (Haifa) – ‘Prophecy, Conversion and “Religion” in the Letters of Benedict Sebastian Sperling’ Ekaterina Emelyantseva Koller (Bangor) – ‘Prophecy and Agency: St. Petersburg’ Prophetess Ekaterina Tatarinova between European Mystical Networks and Russian Peasant Mystical Traditions’ Panel 24 (NAB 305) PROPHECIES ACROSS BORDERS Chair: Sze Ting Chow (Beijing) Lucio Biasiori (Pisa) – “A Letter has been sent by the Master of the Hospitallers...”: The European Circulation of a Prophecy (from the 14th to 18th century) Eduardo Fernández Guerrero (Madrid) – ‘The Apocalypis Nova: Notes on the Circulation of a Renaissance Prophecy’ Luis Filipe Silverio Lima (São Paulo) – ‘Expectations, Experiences and Imperial Prophecies: “the learned Jew”, “the famous Jesuit”, “a poor despised Remnant”, and the Millenarian Connections in the Seventeenth-Century’ 6.00-6.15 Break 6.15-7.30 (LG01) KEYNOTE 2 Nigel Smith (Princeton) – ‘The Grammar of Prophecy: By Numbers or by Narrative.’ Chair: Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, 28 June, 2014 08.30-9.00. Coffee 9.00-10.30 Panel 25 (LG01) BRITISH MYSTICISM Chair: David Finnegan (Warwick School) Liam Temple (Northumbria) – ‘“A neerer, a more familiar, and beyond all expression comfortable conversation with God”: Attitudes to Mystical Theology and the Medieval ‘Mystics’ in Restoration England’ Michael Riordan (Cambridge) – ‘Lady Abden’s “Last revelation” and Quietist Prophecy in Eighteenth Century Scotland’ Martin Greig (Ryerson) – ‘Elijah in Dorset: Prophecy in Early 18th Century Rural England’ Panel 26 (NAB 314) ASTROLOGY 2 Chair: Jacques Halbronn (Paris) H Darrel Rutkin (Erlangen) – ‘Astrology, Prophecy and Politics: Orazio Morandi’s Astrological-Political Think-Tank in Urban VIII’s Rome’ Simon Dagenais (Montréal) – ‘The Art of Trying to Be (almost) always Right: Astrological Predictions in the Almanac of Mathieu Laensbergh (1636-1820)’ Steven van den Broecke (Ghent) – ‘Between Truth and Practicality. An Initial Exploration of Astrologers’ Self-Perceptions in the Enlightenment’ Panel 27 (NAB 305) ITALY 2 Chair: Marios Hatzopoulos (Athens) Federico Barbierato (Verona) – ‘Prophetism, Millenarianism and Mysticism in the Republic of Venice (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries). Research Paths’ Eva Fontana Castelli (Milan) – ‘Niccolò Paccanari, a “False” Prophet in Late Eighteenth- Century Rome’ Claudio Lorenzini (Udine) – ‘Stones, Woods and Blood. The Messiah of Sappada (Venetian Alps) Revisited (1859-1860)’ 10.30-10.45 Coffee 10.45-12.15 Panel 28 (LG01) GERMANY 3 Chair: Adelisa Malena (Venice) Leigh Penman (Queensland) – ‘“An Antidote to this World’s Confusion”: A New Prophet in Seventeenth Century Europe’ Andrew Weeks (Illinois State) – ‘Poetry and Prophecy: Quirinus Kuhlmann (1651-1689)’ Lucinda Martin (Gotha) – ‘From Possession to Prophecy: A Cultural Pattern and its Transformation in Pietism’ Panel 29 (NAB 314) TRANSATLANTIC Chair: Warren Johnston (Algoma) Jennifer Egloff (NYU) – ‘Apocalypse by the Numbers: Biblical Indexing, Numerology, and Millenarianism in Early Modern England and British North America’ Philip Lockley (Oxford) – ‘When Did Early Modern Prophecies Become Modern? A Transatlantic Perspective’ Sheldon Kent (Lancaster) – ‘“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World”: Columbus, Folk Religion and the Religion Building Imagination of Joseph Smith’ Panel 30 (NAB 305) TRANSALPINE Chair: Leslie Tuttle (Kansas) Maria Elena Severini (Florence) – ‘«Quello che è oggidì nascosto col tempo verrà in luce»: Prophecy and renovatio mundi in Loys Le Roy and Giordano Bruno’ Michael Becker (Heidelberg) – ‘Alberico Gentili and his Unpublished Treatise “De Antichristo”’ Kristine Wirts (Edinburg, Texas) – ‘The Story of Jacques Massard: An Alpine Physician makes sense of a Maiden’s Miracle’ 12.15-12.30 Coffee 12.30-1.30 Panel 31 (LG01) SWITZERLAND Chair: Andrew Weeks (Illinois State) Fabien Brändle (Saint-Ursanne) – ‘“Woe upon the Bloodsuckers!” Prophecies and Popular Politics in Early Modern Catholic Central Switzerland, 1500-1700’ Sundar Henny (Basel) – ‘Self-Fulfilling Prophet? The Merging of Prophet and Prophecy in the Writings of Zurich Pastor Johann Jakob Redinger (1619-1688) Panel 32 (NAB 314) PROPHECY IN ART Chair: Julia Eva Wannenmacher (Berlin) Sara Taglialagamba (Paris) – ‘Love Lust Faith + Dreams How Artists Portray Prophecies’ Marco Versiero (Florence, Naples) – ‘“L'occhio ne’ sogni”: Prophecy as a Mirror of Reality in Leonardo da Vinci’ Panel 33 (NAB 305) ENGLAND 7 Chair: Sheldon Kent (Lancaster) Máté Vince (Warwick): ‘Either be vanity or infallibleness’: Prophecy and Uncertainty in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia’ Emily Jennings (Oxford) – ‘Resurrection and Insurrection in 1606: A Case Study of a Puritan ‘“Prophet”’ 2.15-3.30 (LG01) KEYNOTE 3 Chris Rowland (Oxford) – ‘“Where is the Spectre of Prophecy where the delusive Phantom”: William Blake and Contemporary Prophets’ Chair: Lionel Laborie (Goldsmiths) 3.30-4.00 Conclusion Kontakt Lionel Laborie Goldsmiths, University of London l.laborie@gold.ac.uk http://www.gold.ac.uk/history/research/panaceasociety/propheciesconference/ Zitation Early Modern Prophecies Conference. In: H-Soz-Kult, 22.04.2014, .