JOHN FOXE AND HIS WORLD: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium

The Third International John Foxe Colloquim
April 29-May 2, 1999
The Ohio State University

Plenary Lectures By:
Patrick Collinson, Frances Dolan, David Kastan, David Loades, Steven Mullaney, Andrew Pettegree.

The sponsors invite art historians, literary scholars, political, social, and ecclesiastical historians, and others to the first international John Foxe Colloquium to convene in North America. We welcome papers that focus on Foxe's Acts and Monuments ("The Book of Martyrs"), in particular, or other subjects related to Foxe and the world he lived in. Suitable papers
may address Foxe's life and works, narrative or visual art, wit and humor, Reformation historiography and theology, book illustration or iconography, iconoclasm and iconophilia, punishment and pain, political or ecclesiastical history, apocalypticism, Protestantism and print, execution spectacle, gendering of martyrdom, female martyrs, bibliography and editing, paleography, intertextuality, the Tudor monarchs, martyrology in Spain or New Spain, Edmund Spenser, John Bale, Anne Askew, transition from late medieval to early modern culture, the Roman Catholic Other, and other topics. Include your current status and dissertation topic if you are a graduate student who wishes to attend at a reduced rate. In addition to plenary lectures, the programs will include panels, workshops, roundtable discussions, and other events.

The conference organizers are Christopher Highley, John N. King, and Geoffrey Parker

Send one-page proposals to

Kevin Lindberg, Department of English
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210-1370
e-mail: lindberg.2@osu.edu
Fax: (614) 292-7816
BY SEPTEMBER 30, 1998

Sponsored by the Departments of English, History, and Spanish and Portuguese, College of Humanities, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Division of Comparative Studies, and Library

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