Monthly Archives: July 2016

Priestcraft: Early Modern Variations on the Theme of Sacerdotal Imposture

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 29, 2016

Conference: Priestcraft: Early Modern Variations on the Theme of Sacerdotal Imposture 1-2 September 2016, CRASSH, Cambridge Between older forms of anticlericalism which impugned priests for laxity and later forms which questioned their loyalty to the nation, the early modern period witnessed the emergence of its own distinct claim, namely: that priests concocted and peddled fraudulent […]

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CFP: RefoRC Conference 2017 Wittenberg

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 24, 2016

CFP: Seventh Annual RefoRC Conference 2017 Wittenberg: More than Luther: The Reformation and the Rise of Pluralism in Europe 10-12 May 2017, Wittenberg The LEUCOREA Foundation will host the Seventh Annual RefoRC Conference 2017 in Wittenberg (May 10-12) and the topic of the plenary papers will be “More than Luther: The Reformation and the Rise of […]

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Conference: The Sophistic Renaissance

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 20, 2016

Conference: The Sophistic Renaissance 26 September 2016, Ca’ Foscari University This International Conference aims at exploring the influence and diffusion of the ancient sophistic traditions in early-modern Europe, fostering an interdisciplinary discussion among scholars and enhancing a new network for a future collaboration across fields. The Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari […]

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Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 14, 2016

New Book: Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters Surekha Davies Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books […]

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CFP: Rudolph Sohm Revisited, Vergentis 4 (2017)

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 14, 2016

CFP: Rudolph Sohm Revisited, Vergentis 4 (2017) Submissions Due: 1 March 2017 2017 marks the centennial of the death of Rudolph Sohm (1841-1917), jurist, eminent scholar in civil law, canon law and church history. Sohm authored, among many works Kirchenrecht (1892/1923) and Das Altkatholische Kirchenrecht und das Decretum Gratiani (1918), one of the most remarkably influential […]

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Ancients and Moderns in Europe: Comparative Perspectives

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 14, 2016

New Book: Ancients and Moderns in Europe: Comparative Perspectives Edited by Paddy Bullard and Alexis Tadié The Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, or Battle of the Books as it was known in England, famously pitted the Ancients on the one side and the Moderns on the other. This book presents a new intellectual history of […]

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CFP: 60 Years of Essentially Contested Concepts

By James A T Lancaster | Published: July 14, 2016

CFP: 60 Years of Essentially Contested Concepts 12 December 2016, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh’s Philosophy, History, and Literature, Languages and Culture schools, The Creation of Reality Group (CRAG), The Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict (CSMC), EIDYN, and the Institut Français UK celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of W.B. Gallie’s influential paper, […]

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