Borderlands during the Reformation Era: Labs of radicalisation or tolerance? (invited lecture)

Thursday, 15 December 10:30 - 11:30 MIRJAM VAN VEEN (AMSTERDAM), TIM STANTON (YORK), MARTIN VAN GELDEREN (GÖTTINGEN) Introduction - Aims of the Project, possible Research Formats and Funding Opportunities 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break 12:00 - 13:00 MIRJAM VAN VEEN (AMSTERDAM) 16th-century polemics - Anabaptists, Lutherans and Reformed 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:30 MARTIN VAN GELDEREN (GÖTTINGEN) Visual Polemics - from Bruegel via Goltzius and Arminian satires to Rembrandt 15:30 - 16:30 VIOLET SOEN (LEUVEN) Borderlands during the Reformation Era: Labs of radicalisation or tolerance? 16:30 - 17:00 Tea Break 17:00 - 18:00 GRAEME MURDOCK (DUBLIN) Borders, neighbours and co-existence in the Francophone countryside Friday, 16 December 10:30 - 11:30 MARK HUTCHINSON (DURHAM) A Sinful Humanity and the Question of Toleration in Jacobean Ireland and Other Contexts 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break 12:00 - 13:00 TIM STANTON (YORK) Misconceptions of toleration 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 14:30 - 15:30 Conclusion session/Further planningTaking the quote "The Tongues of Men are Trumpets of War and Sedition" as title and starting point, we will explore how, faced with religious diversity, schism and wars of religion after 1517 (to take Luther's theses as a crude marker), Europeans (from Iberian Neo-Scholastics to German Lutherans, from the rich variety of Protestants around the North Sea and up to religious strife in Poland and Hungary) debated and dealt with these issues? why they so often derailed and how they found ways to co-exist perhaps even live together nonetheless. So the idea is to shift the focus from the study of toleration pur sang to the study of the derailments of religious debates in early modern Europe.status: publishe