University of London - School of Advanced Study
Institute of Romance Studies
TWO DAYS ON RENAISSANCE RELIGION
7-8 MAY 1998
1: The Bible in the Renaissance (Thursday 7 May)
2: Girolamo Savonarola, 1498-1998 (Friday 8 May)
Venue: Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, Senate House (3rd floor), Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU
Details of the programmes for these two days are given below. To register in advance (not essential, but
appreciated to enable the Institute to estimate numbers) contact Lara Bell at the Institute of Romance Studies:
email [log in to unmask], fax 0171-862 8672, tel. 0171-862 8675.
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Thursday 7 May: The Bible in the Renaissance
9.30 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
10.00 Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway, London):
'Lorenzo Valla: Setting the Renaissance Agenda.
(i) Did God write elegantly as well as truthfully?
(ii)Did he supervise translations of His book?'
10.45 Michael Heath (King's College London):
'Erasmus and the Psalms'
11.30 COFFEE
11.40 John Flood (Institute of Germanic Studies):
'Luther's Bible - From Genesis to Reception'
12.20 Paulo Alexandre Pereira (King's College, London):
'Biblical exemplarity in Gil Vicente's
Breve Sumario da Historia de Deus.
1.00 LUNCH (OWN ARRANGEMENTS)
2.15 Dom Henry Wansbrough (St Benet's Hall, Oxford):
'The Achievement of Tyndale'
3.00 Canon Vincent Strudwick (Kellogg College, Oxford):
'English fears of social disintegration and
modes of control in relation to the
vernacular scriptures 1534-1603'
3.35 TEA
4.00 Ceri Davies (University of Wales Swansea):
'The Bible in the British Tongue:
the Welsh translations of 1567 and 1588'
4.45 ROUND TABLE
5.30 Conference ends (approximate)
Cost: 15 pounds standard fee, 7.50 IRS members / concessions
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Friday 8 May: GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA, 1498-1998
1.45 REGISTRATION
2.15 Mark Davie (University of Exeter)
Religious Controversy in Florence before Savonarola: Pulci and Ficino
2.45 Michael O’Connor (Ushaw College, University of Durham)
The Ark and the Temple: Uses of Biblical Imagery in Savonarola’s
Preaching to the Florentines
3.30 TEA
4.00 Alison Brown (Royal Holloway, University of London)
'The Cools, the Hots and the Don’t Knows': Some non-religious
participants in the Pamphlet War
4.30 Remo Catani (University of Cardiff)
Savonarola and Astrology
5.15 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
6.00 Colloquium ends
Cost: 9 pounds standard fee, 4.50 IRS members / concessions
Dr Mark Davie
Department of Italian
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4QH, UK
Tel. + 44 (0)1392 264232
Fax + 44 (0)1392 264215
Email [log in to unmask]
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