Journée d'études « 'Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule' : Repenser les productions et pratiques dévotionnelles dans les îles Britanniques (XVIe-XVIIIes.) »

PROGRAMME

8.30 | Welcome (Room 332 – Maison des Sciences de l’Homme)
9.00 | Opening and Introduction by Prof. Sophie Chiari – Professor of Early Modern Literature and Director of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.

Morning sessions

SESSION 1 | Devotional texts and their many forms

9.20: Guillaume Coatalen (CY Cergy Paris Université), “‘Live to serue god in earthe’: John Cheke’s private piety in his unedited manuscript letters (1544-49)”
9.30: Christian Jérémie (Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne), ” La prière comme genre littéraire “
9.40: Paul Norris (Oxford University), “Donne, Andrewes and the architecture of devotion”
9.50-10.10 | Q&A – DISCUSSION
10.10-10.30 | Coffee break

SESSION 2 | Non-conformist forms of devotion

10.30: David Manning (University of Leicester), “Arminians, Quakers, and Anglophone Textual Divinity in the 1650s”
10.40: Daniel Johnson (University of Leicester), “‘Our God Will Crown His Chosen Isle’: Christian Nationalism in the Psalms of Isaac Watts”
10.50: David Austen (Cambridge University), “Natural Philosophy in Nonconformist Devotional Works of the late-Seventeenth Century”
11.00-11.30 | Q&A-DISCUSSION
12.00 | Lunch break

Afternoon sessions

SESSION 3 | Devotion, poetry and the Self

13.30: Vittoria Forliti (University of York), “The Self in Paraphrase: Confession in Anne Lock’s A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner”
13.40: Emma Bartel (Sorbonne Université), “The Holiest Art: Everyday Meditative Practices in
Seventeenth-century England”
13.50: Pierre Lurbe (Sorbonne Université), “‘To animate devotion by pious poetry’ ? La dévotion et sa juste expression chez Samuel Johnson et Daniel Turner”
14.00: Ashleigh Elser (Saint Louis University), “Hester Pulter’s Psalms of Confinement”
14.10-14.40 | Q&A-DISCUSSION
14.40 | Coffee break

SESSION 4 | From private to public devotion

15.00: Micheline White (Carleton University), “Private Devotion, Household Worship, and the Development of the Book of Common Prayer”
15.20: Stephen Taylor (Durham University), “Eikon Basilike as a work of episcopalian devotion”
15.30-15.50 | Q&A-DISCUSSION
16.00-16.15 | Concluding remarks


Pour retrouver l'appel à communications : https://devotion1618.hypotheses.org/