HISTORIA SACRA: RENAISSANCE VISIONS OF CHRISTIAN ORIGINS
10 June 2010, 17:30 - 12 June 2010 13:00
- Speakers:
- Adam Beaver, Liam Brockey, Euan Cameron, David Collins, Simon Ditchfield, Anthony Grafton, Giuseppe Guazzelli, Jean-Marie Le Gall, Howard Louthan, Margaret Meserve, Kenneth Mills, Ros Oates, Matthias Pohlig, Jean-Louis Quantin, Salvador Ryan, Kate van Liere, Alex Walsham and Joanna Weinberg NB: The opening lecture will take place at the Warburg Institute on 10 June at 5.30 pmThe rest of the conference will take place on 11 and 12 June at the University of Notre Dame London Centre, 1 Suffolk St, London SW1Y 4HGATClick here to download the poster and programme
- Organised by:
- Warburg Institute
- Event Type:
- Conference / Symposium
- Venue:
- Warburg Institute
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Description
The centuries of the Renaissance, Reformation and Counter-Reformation (c.1450-1650) were a particularly fertile period in European history for the application of the historical imagination to questions of religious history and origins. Renaissance humanism, with its pronounced classical influence, combined with the confessional pressures of the Reformation to stimulate new ways of thinking about these questions. The result was a veritable boom in historia sacra – that cluster of genres which embraced national and civic chronicle, topographical description, Episcopal calendar, collective and individual hagiography, art history, archaeology and travel literature – as authors applied both critical erudition and creative imagination to the task of demonstrating the antiquity of their local and national churches, sects and traditions.
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