Daily Schedule

June 12-June 17 | June 20-June 24 | June 27-July 1
July 4-July 8 | July 11-July 15

Guest scholars will be available for consultation with participants during “Research and Reading” periods that follow their presentations.

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June 12 - June 17
Sunday, June 12. Welcome
5:00 - 7:00
Reception
Rossborough Inn
Monday, June 13. Introductions and Orientation
9:00 - 10:15
Introductions and breakfast
Ralph Bauer, Vincent Carey, and Adele Seeff
10:30 -12:00 Orientation session and campus walking tour
1:00 - 3:00 Library orientation
3:15 - 5:00

Introductory lecture & discussion
Ralph Bauer & Vincent Carey, “What is Persecution?”

5:00 - 7:00 Welcome dinner
   

Tuesday, June 14 through Wednesday, June 22. Lead Scholar: Ralph Bauer
The Cultural and Political Functions of Public Spectacles of Persecution: Spain and Spanish America

Tuesday, June 14
9:00 - 10:30 Reading and research
10:30 - 12:00 Ralph Bauer, lecture, “The Cultural and Political Functions of Public Spectacles of Persecution: Spain and New Spain”
1:00 - 2:15 Lourdes Alvarez, lecture, “Religious Persecution and the Rhetoric of Conversion: Muslims & Jews in 15th Century Spain”
Required reading:
Nirenberg, David. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages, 18-40 and 201-230.
2:30 - 4:30 Lourdes Alvarez, workshop, “Spanish Politics of Religion”
   
Wednesday, June 15
9:00 - 10:15 Barbara Fuchs, lecture, “Maurophila/Maurophobia”
10:30 - 12:30 Barbara Fuchs, “Christians and Moriscos in Sixteenth-Century Spain”
Required reading:
Fuchs, Barbara. Mimesis and Empire, Chapter 4.
Anon. El Abencerraje. 1565. Novella. Translation by John Eston Keller available.
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Reading and research
   
Thursday, June 16
9:00 - 12:00 Eyda Merediz, lecture and workshop, “Conquest and Persecution and Conquest in the Early Modern Atlantic”
Required reading:
de las Casas, Bartolomé. In Defense of the Indians. Selections.
-----. The Only Way. Selections.
Columbus, Christopher. Journal. Selections.
1:00 - 5:00 Research and reading at the University of Maryland or by metro to the Folger or the Library of Congress
   
Friday, June 17
9:00 -10:15 Luis Fernando Restrepo, lecture, “Persecution in Colonial Spanish America: Extirpating Idolatry in the Northern Andes”
Required reading:
"The Spiritual and Physical Ecstasies of a Sixteenth Century Beata: Marina de San Miguel Confesses Before the Mexican Inquisition.” In Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850, ed. Richard Boyer and Geoffrey Spurling, 77-100.
"The Warochiri Manuscript." In Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History, ed. Kenneth Mills, William B. Taylor, Sandra Lauderdale Graham, 3-13.
Gruzinski, Serge. “Secrets of an Outlawed Past,” Painting the Conquest, 55-101.
10:30 - 12:30 Luis Fernando Restrepo and Ralph Bauer, workshop, “Texts and Contexts of the Auto de Fé
Required reading:
Philips, Miles. “Narrative.” In Richard Hakluyt, The Principle Navigations.
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
 
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June 20 - June 24
Monday, June 20
9:00 - 10:15 Georgina Dopico Black, lecture, “Transatlantic Crossings: Conversion, Translation and Assimilation in Early Modern Spain and Colonial America”
Required reading:
Eimeric, Nicolau and Francisco Peña. Directorium inquisitorum. Selections
10:30 - 12:30 Georgina Dopico Black, workshop, “Eimeric, Nicolau, and Francisco Peña's Directorium inquisitorium
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Tuesday, June 21
9:00 - 10:15 Nina Gerassi-Navarro, lecture, “Raiding Latin America: Piracy, Empire, and Creole Patriots”
Required reading:
de Siguenza Góngora, Carlos, The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez
10:30 - 12:30 Nina Gerassi-Navarro and Ralph Bauer, workshop, “The Hawkins Expedition from Various Perspectives”
Required reading:
Hortop, John, and Robert Tompson, “Narratives,” in Richard Hakluyt, The Principle Navigations .
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Wednesday, June 22
9:00 - 11:30 Ralph Bauer, “Forum: Persecutions in Spain and Spanish America”
12:30 - 5:00 Field trip to the National Gallery of Art and DC sites
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner downtown
   

Thursday, June 23 through Tuesday, June 28. Lead Scholar: Vincent Carey
Making Law and Remaking History: The Elizabethan Settlement

Thursday, June 23
9:00 - 10:30 Research and reading
10:30 - 11:30 Vincent Carey, “English Reformations and Persecutions in the Sixteenth Century: Overview, Timeline, and the Current Debate”
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 4:30 Theresa Coletti, lecture and workshop, “Late Medieval Theologies of the Image: Practice & Persecution on the Threshold of Reform”
Required reading:
Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, c.1400-c.1580. Selections.
"Images and Pilgrimages," in Selections from English Wycliffite Writings. Ed. Anne Hudson.
Simpson, James “The Rule of Medieval Imagination,” in Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclacism in Late Medieval England, ed. Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson, and Nicolette Zeeman (Oxford, 2002), pp. 11-24.
   
Friday, June 24
9:00 - 10:15

Norman Jones, lecture, “The Elizabethan Settlement and the Structure of Enforced Religion”
Required reading:
Acts of Supremacy 1 Eliz. 1, c. 1 (4 pages).
Act of Uniformity 1 Eliz. 1, c. 2 (4 pages).
“Prohibiting Unlicensed Interludes and Plays, especially on Religion or Policy,” in Hughes and Larkin, eds., Tudor Royal Proclamations, vol. 2, 115-6.
“Visitation Injunctions of 1559,” in Hughes and Larkin, Tudor Royal Proclamations, vol. 2, 117-32 .

10:30 - 12:30

Norman Jones, workshop, “The Elizabethan Settlement: Parliament and the Law Concerning the Church”
Required reading:
Collects 3, 4, 5, from “Private Prayers of Queen Elizabeth at Court, 1563,” in Leah Marcus, et al., ed., Elizabeth I: Collected Works. 135-39.
5 Eliz. I, c. 1
13 Eliz. I, c. 1
“Robert Atkinson's Speech on the oath of Supremacy.” In T.E. Hartley, Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I, I, 96-102.
Lord Keeper Bacon’s opening speech to the Parliament of 1562/3 in T.E. Hartley, Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I, I, 80-86.

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
 
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June 27 - July 1
Monday, June 27
9:00 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Tuesday, June 28
AT THE FOLGER
10:00 - 11:15 Rachel Doggett, lecture, “Foxe in the Folger Library: The Books and Their Preservation”
11:30 -1:00 Rachel Doggett, lecture, “Bibles, Catechisms, Prayer Books, and ABC Books”
1:00 - 4:30 Research and reading
5:30 - 8:00 Dinner downtown
   

Wednesday, June 29, through Friday, July 1. Lead Scholar: Vincent Carey
Treason and Martyrdom, Persecution and Prosecution

Wednesday, June 29
9:00 - 10:15 Vincent Carey, lecture, “The Jesuit Mission and the Execution of Campion: Conflicting Accounts”
Required reading:
Cecil, William. “The Execution of Justice in England,” in Kingdon, ed. 3-21.
Lake, Peter, and Questier, Michael. “Puritans, Papists, and the ‘Public Sphere’ in Early Modern England: The Edmund Campion Affair in Context, 587-627.
10:30 - 12:30 Vincent Carey, workshop, “Campions Affect on Public Discourse”
Required reading:
Royal Proclamation on the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, Hughes and Larkin, ed. 528-32.
Verstegan, Richard, A Declaration of the true Causes. . . 7-37.
Wyngfield, Robert. “A Circumstantial Account of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots” (1587), 6 pages.
Blackwood, Adam. “The History of Mary Queen of Scots,” (1587) 4 pages.
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 4:00

Participant presentations

   
Thursday, June 30
9:00 - 10:15 Vincent Carey, “Atrocity, Martyrdom, and the Formation of Irish Catholic Identity”
Required reading:
Lennon, Colm. “Taking Sides: The Emergence of Irish Catholic Ideology” in Carey and Lotz Heumann, eds Taking Sides: Confessional and Colonial Mentalitiés in Early Modern Ireland, 78-93.
Tait, Clodagh, “Adored for Saints: Catholic Martyrdom in Ireland,” JEMH(2002): 128-159.
10:30 - 12:30 Vincent Carey, workshop, “Atrocity and Protestant Apocalyptic Justifications in Evidence”
Required reading:
Munday, Anthony, The true reporte of the prosperous successe which God gave unto our English souldiours against … our Romanie ememies (1580). 1-5.
Sir John Temple, The Irish Rebellion (London, 1646) two 5 page selections.
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 Participant presentations
   
Friday, July 1
9:00 - 10:15 Christopher Highley, lecture, “Catholics in Exile under Elizabeth and James”
10:30 - 11:30 Christopher Highley, workshop, “Textual Communities in Cities of Exile: Douay-Rhemes, Louvain, and Antwerp”
Required reading:
Douay Old Testament (1610). Front matter. 1-12.
Stapleton, Thomas, trans. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England. London, 1565. Front matter.
Verstegan, Richard. 1587. Théâtre des Cruautés des Hérétiques de Notre Temps. Ed. Frank Lestringant. Paris: Chandeigne, 1995. See especially martyrological lists and series of woodcuts (e.g. execution of Thomas More, Margaret Clitherow, several priests, Mary Queen of Scots).
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch with Highley and Leinwand
1:00 - 4:00 Theodore Leinwand, “Shakespeare against Doctrine: Hamlet and Measure for Measure
Required reading:
Greenblatt, Stephen. “Remember Me.” In Hamlet in Purgatory, 205-57.
 
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July 4 - July 8
Monday, July 4
HOLIDAY
   
Tuesday, July 5
9:00 - 10:15 John King, lecture, “The History of Foxe’s Book: Actes and Monuments, 1563-1684”
Required reading:
Aston, Margaret and Elizabeth Ingram, “The Iconography of the Acts and Monuments,” in John Foxe and the English Reformation, ed. David Loades (Aldershot, Hants: Scolar Pr., 1997), 101-142.
Luborsky, Ruth, “The Illustrations: Their Pattern and Plan,” in John Foxe: An Historical Perspective, ed. David Loades (Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 1999), 67-84.
10:30 - 12:30 John King, workshop
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch with visiting scholar
2:00 - 4:00 Participant presentations
   

Wednesday, July 6, through Friday, July 8. Lead Scholar: Vincent Carey
Martyrdom, Treason, Conformity, and Resistance: Catholics in Elizabethan England

Wednesday, July 6
9:00 - 12:30 Research and reading
1:30 - 3:00 Jessie Anne Owens, lecture, “William Byrd: Music of Sorrow and Comfort”
3:15 - 4:30 Jessie Anne Owens, lecture, “Disseminating Byrd’s Music: Evidence of Printed Books and Manuscripts”
5:30 - 7:00 Catered dinner with Jessie Anne Owens
7:00 - 8:30 Jessie Anne Owens, workshop, “Hearing Byrd’s Music”
Required reading:
Kerman, Joseph. “William Byrd and Elizabethan Catholicism,” in Write All These Down: Essays on Music. 77-89.
Milsom, John. “Sacred Songs in the Chamber,” in English Choral Practice, 1400-1650, ed. John Morehen.161-179.
Monson, Craig, “Byrd, Catholics, and the Motet: The Hearing Reopened,” in Hearing the Motet, ed. Dolores Pesce. 348-74.
   
Thursday, July 7
9:00 - 10:15 Frances Dolan, “Catholicism and the Undead”
10:30 - 12:30 Frances Dolan, workshop, “The Place of Gender in Anti-Catholic Polemic”
Required reading:
Short excepts from anti-Catholic polemic (handout)
Short excerpts from Dolan, Frances E. Whores of Babylon (paperback ed., 2005). Introduction, 1-15, and new preface.
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch with visiting scholar
2:00 - 4:00 Participant presentations
   
Friday, July 8
9:00 - 1:00 Research, reading, and lunch
1:00 - 5:00 Field trip to The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md.
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner in Baltimore
 
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July 11 - July 15

Monday, July 11, through Wednesday, July 13. Lead Scholar: Ralph Bauer
The Cultural Work of Persecution: England and British America

Monday, July 11
9:00 - 10:15 Ralph Bauer, “From England to British America: Anglicans, Puritans, Quakers, and Antinomians”
Required reading:
Williams, Roger. The Bloudy Tenent. Selections.
Foster, Stephen. The Long Argument: English Puritanism and the Shaping of New England Culture, 1570-1700. 1-32.
10:30 - 12:30 Ralph Bauer, workshop
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Tuesday, July 12
9:00 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Wednesday, July 13
9:00 - 10:15

Carla Pestana, “Did the Quakers Court Persecution?”
Required reading:
Pestana, Carla Gardina. “The Quaker Executions as Myth and History.” Journal of American History (1993): 441-69.
Bishop, George. New England judged not by Man but by the Spirit of the Lord. Front material, 92-95.

Recommended reading:
Pestana, Carla. “Martyred by the Saints: Quaker Executions in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts.” 30 pp.
Cobbet, Thomas. The civil magistrates power. Front material, 82-99.
Norton, John. The heart of New-England rent. Front material, 62-80.

10:30 - 12:30 Carla Pestana, workshop
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch with visiting scholar
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Thursday and Friday, July 14 and 15. Conclusions
Thursday, July 14
9:00 - 10:15 Ralph Bauer, “Persecution in the Age of Newton: The ‘Specular’ Evidence in the Salem Witch Trials”
Required reading:
Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England.
Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. 1-21.
10:15 - 12:30 Ralph Bauer, workshop
1:30 - 5:00 Research and reading
   
Friday, July 15
9:00 - 12:00 Participant Presentations
12:00 - 1:30 Catered lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Roundtable Discussion: “What is Persecution?”
2:30 - 4:00 Evaluation and closing
 
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Last updated June 13, 2007