Location
Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester
Organised by Dr Hannah Yip and Dr Ben Jackson, this three-day conference at the University of Manchester joins this renewed historiographical focus on the clergy’s social lives and aims to broaden our purview of clerical experiences in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Whereas a wealth of research has examined the clergy and its changing social functions and roles during the tumult of the Reformation on the British Isles, this conference seeks to investigate clerical experience and behaviours in the later part of the early modern period. It will also include an exciting curator-led ‘collections encounter’ at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library using their world-renowned ecclesiastical collections.
Keynote addresses will be delivered by Professor Jacqueline Eales (Canterbury Christ Church University) and Professor Jon Stobart (Manchester Metropolitan University).
This conference is funded by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages (University of Manchester), the John Rylands Research Institute and Library (University of Manchester), and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Visit this link for more details on the conference programme and registration details: https://clericallives.wordpress.com/