Annual Meeting Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, 22-24 March 2018
… will feature the following EMoDiR-panels:
Early Modern Anti-Catholic Protestant Propaganda
Thu, March 22, 9:00 to 10:30am, Hilton Riverside Complex, Bridge Room
Chair: Federico Barbierato
Stefano Villani, University of Maryland, College Park: Catholics as Papists: Early Modern British Protestant Encounters with Italy
Simone Maghenzani, University of Cambridge: “Is not Charles Borromeo a God?”: Protestant Exiles and the Mockery of Counter-Reformation Italy
Kelsey Champagne, Yale University: Protestant Propaganda and Catholic Identity in the British Atlantic, 1660–1714
Blasphemy, Politics, Religious Controversies in Early Modern Times
Fri, March 23, 9:00 to 10:30am, Hilton Riverside Complex, Quarter Deck Room C.
Chair: Stefano Villani
Federico Barbierato, Università degli Studi di Verona: Mocking the Sacred: Misbelieving and Anti-Clerical Words and Metaphors in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Ariel Hessayon, Goldsmiths, University of London: “A Swarme of Sectaries”: John Taylor (1578–1653) and the Enemies of His Religion
Xenia von Tippelskirch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Antimystical Satire in Late 17th Century France
Early Modern Jewish-Christian Polemics in Context
Fri, March 23, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Hilton Riverside, 3rd Level – Canal Room
Chair: Bernard Cooperman
Flora Cassen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The “Jewish Badge:” A Mark of Shame and the Jews’ Resistance Against It
Paweł Maciejko, Johns Hopkins University: Jesus and Sabbatai Tsevi: A History of the Simile
Martina Mampieri, Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Universität Hamburg: Melchiorre Palontrotti and the First Giudiata against the Jews of Rome (1647–48)
Religious Polemics in Northern and Eastern Europe
Fri, March 23, 11:00am to 12:30pm, Hilton Riverside Complex, Quarter Deck Room C
Chair: Simone Maghenzani
Maria Ivanova, University of Virginia: “Worthy of mockery”: Attacking the Self in Ruthenian Polemical Literature
Sari Kivistö, University of Tampere, Finland; Paivi Mehtonen, University of Helsinki: Shoemakers as Dissident Reformers in Lutheran Germany and Sweden (Finland) Polemics from Both Sides