History of Christianity

Mondays, 4:10pm, in the Martin Hall unless otherwise stated

All welcome. For enquiries, please contact Dr Felicity Loughlin: f.loughlin@ed.ac.uk

Semester 1: Autumn 2024

Date Speaker/eventTopic
16 September Book Launch of Dr Simon Burton (University of Edinburgh), Ramism and the Reformation of Method: The Franciscan Legacy in Early Modernity. With introduction by Prof. Susan Hardman Moore (Edinburgh) and commentary by Dr Howard Hotson (University of Oxford) and Dr Richard Oosterhoff (University of Edinburgh).
Tuesday 24 September 

Book Launch of Pedro Feitoza, Propagandists of the Book: Protestant Missions, Christian Literacy, and the Making of Brazilian Evangelicalism, with panellists Dr Timo Shaefer (History), Dr Maya Mayblin (Anthropology) and Alison Zilversmit (Divinity). 

 

*Joint with World Christianity - Please note this takes place on Tuesday*

14 OctoberDr Sophie Cooper (Queen's University Belfast)“Learning Through Letters: Nineteenth-Century Correspondence Networks in the Irish Female Religious Diaspora”.
28 OctoberDr Kirsty Day (University of Edinburgh)"Serving Sisters in the Thirteenth-Century Monastic Community".
18 NovemberDr William Hyland (University of St Andrews)Book Launch of Dr Andrew Kloes (FRHistS and a historian in Washington) and Dr Laura Mair (University of Aberdeen), Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond, 1800–2000: Essays in Honour of Stewart J. Brown. With commentary by Owen Dudley Edwards (University of Edinburgh), Professor Colin Kidd (University of St Andrews) and Professor Frances Knight (University of Nottingham).
25 NovemberRevd Dr Paul Avis Paul Avis (Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh)“Richard Hooker (1554-1600): Architect of Anglican Theological Method”.