Ideas and Beliefs

Dale R. "No longer normal": Traumatized Red Army Veterans in Post-war Leningrad. In: Leese, P; Crouthamel, J, ed. Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After. New York, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp.119-141.

East K.A. Apocryphal Cicero: John Toland’s Cicero Illustratus and Notions of Authority in the Early Enlightenment. International Journal of the Classical Tradition 2016, 23(2), 108-126.

East K.A. Cicero the Pantheist: A Radical Reading of Ciceronian Scepticism in John Toland's Pantheisticon (1720). Intellectual History Review 2016, 26(2), 245-261.

Morton A. Popery, Politics and Play: visual culture in Succession Crisis England. The Seventeenth Century 2016, (ePub ahead of Print), 1-39.

Turner S., ÓCarragáin T. ed. Making Christian Landscapes in Atlantic Europe. Conversion and consolidation in the early Middle Ages. Cork: Cork University Press, 2016.

Allen J. 'Uneasy transitions: Irish nationalism, the rise of Labour and the Catholic Herald, 1888-1918'. In: Laurence Marley, ed. The British Labour Party and Twentieth Century Ireland. The cause of Ireland, the cause of Labour. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2015, pp.35-54.

Allen J. “The Ink Of The Wise”: Mazzini, British Radicalism And Print Culture, 1848–1855. In: Carter, N, ed. Britain, Ireland and the Risorgimento. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Fowler C. Change and continuity in Early Bronze Age mortuary rites: a case study from Northumberland. In: Brandt, R., Ingvaldsen, H., Prusac, M, ed. Death and Changing Rituals: Function and meaning in ancient funerary practices. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2015, pp.45-91.

Fowler C., Scarre C. Mortuary practices and bodily representations in north-west Europe. In: Fowler, C; Harding, J; Hofmann, D, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe. Oxford University Press, 2015, pp.1023-1047.

Garrett P. Crime on the Estates: Justice and Politics in the Kōyasan Domain. Journal of Japanese Studies 2015, 41(1), 79-112.

Hammersley R., ed. Revolutionary Moments: Reading Revolutionary Texts. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Hammersley R. Concepts of Citizenship in France During the Long Eighteenth Century. European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 2015, 22(3), 468-485.

Morton A. Images and the Senses in post-Reformation England. Reformation 2015, 20(1), 1-24.

Redgate, A. E, ‘Seeking Promotion in the Challenging 640s: The Amatuni Church at Ptghni, Ideas of Political Authority, and Paulician Challenge – a Background to the Teaching of Anania Shirakatsi’, Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies IX/1 (2015), pp. 163-176.

Racaut L. une juste moitié de vos livres«: le rôle de la propagande religieuse dans la production pamphlétaire. In: Médialité et intépretation contemporaine des premières guerres de Religion. 2014, Paris: De Gruyter.

Redgate, A. E. ‘Faces from the Past: Aghtamar, the Anglo-Saxon Alfred Jewel, and the Sasanian Chosroes Dish – Ideas and Influences in Portraiture’, Banber Matenadarani 21 (2014), pp. 331-340 (= Hrachya Tamrazyan (ed.), Proceedings of the 13th General Conference of AIEA (Yerevan: Nairi, 2014) (electronic version http://www.matenadaran.am/ftp/data/Banber-21.pdf free access).

Clarke N. ‘They are the most treacherous of people’: religious difference in Arabic accounts of three early medieval Berber revolts. eHumanista 2013, 24, 510-525.

Garrett P. Holy Vows and Realpolitik: Preliminary Notes on Kōyasan's Early Medieval Kishōmon. e-Journal of East and Central Asian Religions 2013, 1, 94-107.

Manolopoulou V. Processing emotion: litanies in Byzantine Constantinople. In: Nesbitt, C. and Jackson, M, ed. Experiencing Byzantium. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013, pp.153-172

Santangelo F. Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Clarke N. The Muslim Conquest of Iberia: Medieval Arabic Narratives. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.

Fashioning Difference: Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

6 December 2018

 A guest lecture delivered by Mikael Alm (University of Uppsala and 2018 Matariki Fellow at Durham University). 

In early modern societies, the interplay between sartorial practices and social order was complex. Clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns. They were powerful agents of change, actively used by individuals and groups to make claims and to transgress formal boundaries. This was not least the case during the revolutionary decades of the late eighteenth century. Drawing on his upcoming book, historian Mikael Alm will dive into these matters. Departing from the Swedish case, several fields of early modern cultural history are brought together: social culture and early modern preoccupation with order; visual culture and the preoccupation with a legible order; and sartorial culture and the preoccupation with the proper means of making difference.

Workshop: Anti-Catholicism in Europe and America, 1520-1900

11-13 September 2018

A three-day workshop on anti-Catholicism in Europe and America will be held at Newcastle University between 11-13 September 2018. The aims of the workshop are to compare and contrast the anti-Catholic traditions of a range of countries and regions across Europe and America from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century; to see how definitions of ‘popery’ changed according to the political/religious context in which they were situated; and to assess how, why and to what extent anti-Catholicism might be seen to have contributed to wider historical processes such as the Reformation, Enlightenment, empire, state building and the formation of national identities.

The workshop will not be run via a series of formal papers, but will encourage discussion, exchange and interdisciplinary debate. We would like to encourage historians, art historians, theologians and literature scholars, and those from other disciplines and at all stages of their careers to participate in this workshop. If you are interested in contributing, please submit a 300 word abstract of your research interests and how they relate to one or more of the following themes to adam.morton@newcastle.ac.uk by April 30th 2018:

- Anti-Catholicism and National Identities
- Anti-Catholicism and the Atlantic World
- Anti-Catholicism in America
- Anti-Catholicism and the Reformation
- Anti-Catholicism and the Enlightenment
- Anti-Catholic readings of the past
- Conspiracy Theories
- Stereotypes
- Representations of ‘papists’
- Anti-Catholicism and politics/political thought
- Anti-Catholic violence, unrest, and riot
- Change and continuity in concepts of anti-Catholicism 
- Catholic reactions to anti-Catholicism

It is expected that proceedings from the workshop will be published at a later date.

The workshop is being organised by the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded network, Anti-Catholicism in British History: c. 1520-1900. The aim of this network is to outline the history of anti-Catholicism in Britain by focussing on how it contributed to political, cultural and religious movements during moments of crisis, by tracing the roles which stereotypes and conspiracy theories played in maintaining anti-Catholic ideology, and by assessing the ways in which anti-Catholicism changed across the centuries and how vital this change was to ensuring that it remained a significant part of ‘British’ and ‘Protestant’ identities. This workshop on Europe and America is intended to draw comparisons between nations: anti-Catholicism is often cited as being crucial to national identity, but was it, perhaps, a supra-national ideology? Given that so many countries and groups claimed it as a hallmark of their identity, can it be seen as a ‘national’ phenomenon in any meaningful sense?

Early Modern Political Thought and Twenty-First Century Politics: A Workshop

Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society, Westgate Road 16 May 2018

England in the mid-seventeenth century was politically turbulent. Civil War, regicide & republic all disrupted the normal institutions and practices of politics. While this must have been hard for those living at the time, it nonetheless generated a wealth of new political ideas. These included: the proto-democratic radicalism of the Levellers; the innovative constitutional proposals of James Harrington; the experiment in communal living enacted by the Diggers and the theories of political obligation, representation and church-state relations of Thomas Hobbes. Many of these ideas remain of interest and relevance today. And, while it would be wrong to suggest that seventeenth-century ideas can simply be applied to solve current problems, it is undoubtedly useful to look to the past to understand how we came to be where we are, and the other paths that could have been taken. At this workshop, experts on the seventeenth century will explore what early-modern thinkers had to say on the themes of popular mobilisation, toleration, environmentalism and exile and what their insights might add to contemporary political discussions.

Speakers: John Rees (author of The Leveller Revolution); Ann Hughes (Keele University); Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths); Gaby Mahlberg (author of Henry Neville & English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century)

For more information contact Rachel.Hammersley@ncl.ac.uk

Workshop: Trajectories of Anti-Catholicism in Britain 1520-1900

Research Beehive, Newcastle University 21-22 March 2018

This two-day workshop will assess the various traditions of anti-Catholicism in British history. It will compare and contrast traditions in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England, and trace continuities and change in anti-Catholic ideology across the centuries. Speakers will consider the role of stereotypes in the sustaining of anti-Catholicism, and discussion will focus on how prejudice and intolerance can be approached historically. The event will be interdisciplinary and will features presentations from historians, literary scholars and social psychologists.

Provisional Programme:

DAY 1 (12.45-13.00) Welcome (Adam Morton)

13.00-15.45 Trajectories and National Perspectives
Commentator: Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield)
- Alan Ford (University of Nottingham): Ireland
- Clotilde Prunier (Paris): Scotland
- Paul O’Leary (Aberystwyth University): Wales
- John Wolffe (Open University): England

15.45-16.15 Coffee

16.15-1800 Roundtable: Analysing Anti-Catholicism

Chair: Andrew Holmes (Queens University Belfast)

- John Craig (Simon Fraser University), Emma Turnbull (University of Oxford), Donald McRaild (University of Roehampton), Aishlinn Muller (University of Cambridge), Joan Allen (Newcastle).

19.30: Dinner

DAY 2 (9-10.30) Approaching Prejudice and Intolerance

Chair: Adam Morton (Newcastle University)
- Cristian Tileaga (Loughborough University)
- Jovan Byford (Open University)

10.30-11: Coffee

11.00-13.00: Roundtable: Anti-Catholic Stereotypes

Chair: Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle University)
- Carys Brown (University of Cambridge), Colin Haydon (Winchester University), Thomas Freeman (University of Essex), Adam Morton (Newcastle University), Naiyla Shamgunova (University of Cambridge)

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-15.00: Roundtable – Going Forward: Analysing Anti-Catholicism
Chair: Adam Morton (Newcastle University)

To register, please contact adam.morton@newcastle.ac.uk

Workshop: Anti-Catholicism in 19th Century Britain

Wednesday 31st January 2018 

This half-day workshop will consider the various and contrasting roles which anti-Catholic ideology played in nineteenth century British society. Topics covered will include religion, patriotism, immigration, sexual politics and memory of the Reformation. The event is being chaired by Professor Hugh Macleod, FBA, and speakers include Dr Harry Cocks (Nottingham), Dr Andrew Atherstone (Oxford), Dr Sarah Roddy (Manchester) and Dr Jonathan Bush (Ushaw College, Durham). The event is being organised by the Ideas and Beliefs research strand in conjunction with the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Durham. To register, please contact adam.morton@newcastle.ac.uk

Early Modern Civil Religion. This Reading Group is a community of scholars and postgraduates from Newcastle University and institutions across the North-East which meets fortnightly to investigate and discuss the notion of civil religion in the early modern period. Taking as our general chronological remit the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and using both primary and secondary readings, we aim to encourage discussion of the development of the concept of 'civil religion', how it was understood, and its role in progressing the burgeoning Enlightenment discourse. We encourage an interdisciplinary approach, engaging with the influence of ancient religion and classical writers, and welcoming contributions from philosophical, literary, political cultural and social perspectives. Our first meeting will take place on Thursday 10th November at 10am in Room 1.23 in the Armstrong Building. We will be discussing Mark Goldie’s seminal article ‘The Civil Religion of James Harrington’, in The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe edited by Anthony Pagden (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 197-222. If you have any queries, please email katherine.east@newcastle.ac.uk.

The Reformation Colloquium. Over 80 delegates from 10 countries attending the Reformation Colloquium 2016 in the Research Beehive at Newcastle University. This is the largest Reformation conference in the UK and was preceded in Newcastle by the European Reformation Research Group on the 13th September. The plenary speakers were Prof Marc Forster (Connecticut College), Prof Susan Karant-Nunn (Arizona) and Dr Lucy Wooding (Oxford). Further details and the programme can be viewed here https://reformation2016.wordpress.com/, 14-16 September 2016.

Historicising Belief. The School of History, Classics and Archaeology hosted a one day workshop dedicated to discussing the challenges and opportunities faced by scholars researching belief in the past. This was an interdisciplinary workshop featuring Historians, Classicists, Archaeologists, Literature Scholars and Japanologists, and included papers spanning an expansive chronological range (from Classical Rome to 20th Century Russia). Discussing focussed on presenters responding to the challenges posed to scholars by Brad Gregory, whose work has challenged the extent to which methodologies borrowed from sociology and anthropology (which have dominated approaches to religious history in the past two generations) are useful in the study of belief. List of participants: Adam Morton (Newcastle), Lucy Sackville (York), Susan Karant-Nunn (Arizona), Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto), Rob Dale (Newcastle), Philip Garret (Newcastle), Esther Eidinow (Nottingham), Ceri Houlbrooke (Hertfordshire), Alexandra Anokhina (Catholic University of Leuven), Vicky Monolopoulou (Newcastle), Chris Fowler (Newcastle), Ria Snowdon (Auckland Castle Trust), Federico Santangelo (Newcastle), Luc Racaut (Newcastle), Scott Ashley (Newcastle), Nicola Clarke (Newcastle), 12 September 2016.