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)
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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)
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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