Date / time: 11 January, 9:00 am - 6:30 pm
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Conference Programme – Saturday, 11 January 2025 (all times GMT)
9.00–10.15 Welcome and Plenary 1
Chair: Canon Prof. Michael Snape
Prof. Silvia Mostaccio, ‘Missionaries and Military in Spanish Europe: Cultural and Religious Issues from the Jesuit Mission in the Army of Flanders (1587–1659)’.
10.15–11.15 Communications I
Session Ia
Louisa Taylor, ‘“Non minus Piratam se quam Pontificem”: A Comparative Study of Clerical Involvement in Military Activities in the Baltic Region, 1147–1219’.
Aliaksandra Valodzina, ‘Crying Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Influence of Heresy Accusations on Military Actions in the Polemics between the Polish-Lithuanian Union and the Teutonic Order’.
Session Ib
Andrew Spicer, ‘The Church, Military Violence and Sacred Space’.
Paul Arblaster, ‘“Legions of angels”: Providential Assistance in Herman Hugo’s Account of the Siege of Breda (1624–5)’.
Session Ic
Sahra Mezhoud, ‘The Christian Pacifists of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR) against the Great War (1914–18) in Britain’.
Thomas Dobson, ‘The Wesleyan Normal Institution, Westminster: A Tale of Institutional Patriotic Duty, or Personal Civic Responsibility?’.
Session Id
Hannah Cleugh, ‘Praying for the State of Christ’s Church Militant? The De-Militarisation of Liturgical Language and Imagery in the Twentieth-Century Church of England’.
Joseph Hardwick, ‘British Religious Responses to the Service and Suffering of Military Animals, 1914–1930s’.
11.15–11.25 Coffee Break
11.25–12.55 Communications II
Session IIa
Jesse Harrington, ‘Antistite zelo sue gentis: St Laurence O’Toole and the Siege of Dublin, 1170–71’.
Sven Dittmar, ‘Did Early Modern Prince-Bishops neglect their Armies? The Case of the Electorate of Mainz’.
Zoltán Attila Liktor, ‘Conquest and Pacification in the Indies: Pedro de la Gasca, Interim Viceroy of Peru, Diplomat, Soldier Viceroy and Bishop’.
Session IIb
Haoyang Lin, ‘Armed Mongols in the Oratory of San Giorgio of Padua in late Fourteenth Century’.
Branislav Milićević, ‘Between the East and the West: The Blurred Lines of the Schism Borderline Area on the Example of the Franciscan Monastery in Bač’.
Kristóf Szuromi, ‘Image of the Christian Soldier from Erasmus to Cardinal Pázmány in Light of the Ottoman Wars’.
Session IIc
Nikolas Funke, ‘Pastoral Care in a Multi-Confessional Setting: The Holy Roman Empire until c.1650’.
Tristan Griffin, ‘The Royalist Army and the Church’.
Denis Sdvizhkov, ‘The military chaplaincy in the Russian Imperial Army during the Seven Years War (1756–63)’.
Session IId
Elizabeth Reid, ‘Holy or Hypocrites? Maitland Chaplains at Home and Abroad’.
Charlotte Methuen, ‘The RAF’s Moral Leadership Courses in the East 1942–6: One Chaplain’s Experiences’.
Ana Amélia Gimenez Dias, ‘Faith on the Frontline: The Reintroduction of Religious Assistance in the Brazilian Army during World War II’.
12.55–13.40 Lunch Break
13.40–14.50 Book Prize Announcement and Plenary 2
Chair: Canon Prof. Michael Snape
Dr Peter Howson, ‘British Army Churches in Germany, 1945–2020’.
14.50–15.00 Coffee Break
15.00–16.00 Communications III
Session IIIa
Cristina de la Rosa García, ‘Men of War and Men of Faith: The Tensions between Military and Religious Mission in the Spanish Occupation of North Africa (Oran and Mers-el-Kébir, Sixteenth Century)’.
Matthew Rowley, ‘How American Protestants Remember and Forget the Wars of Colonial New England’.
Session IIIb
Allison Millward, ‘The Greatest Mothers in the World: Christian Themes in Nursing Imagery in the WWI-Era’.
John Hammond, ‘Women Artists and the Church’s Memorialisation of the Great War Man and Woman at Arms’.
Session IIIc
Gordon Heath, ‘Canadian Protestant Churches’ Wartime Crusading Discourse from the Boer War to the Cold War’.
Grigori Khislavski, ‘Apocalyptic Thinking as State Doctrine: Russia’s Self-(re)invention as a De-Secularized World Power and Guardian of Orthodoxy’.
16.00–16.10 Coffee Break
16.10–17.10 Communications IV
Session IVa
Christopher Scargill, ‘The Roman Army and the Conversion of Northern Britain’.
Samuel Rowe, ‘“The pope-at-arms”: Papal Interference in Lombard Military Matters, 579–752’.
Session IVb
Xiang Wei, ‘“A Sinful and Scandalous Association”? The Multi-Confessional Army and the Fragmentation of Scottish Presbyterianism, c.1688–1715’.
Darren Layne, ‘“The Lord’s Sickle of Liberty”: Presbyterian Clergy and Paramilitary Activism in the Jacobite Rising of 1745’.
Session IVc
Emil Wohl, ‘“Until the Death of Death”: Joseph de Maistre on Eternal War and Modern Catholic Reaction.’
Adam Petty, ‘The Nauvoo Legion: A Latter-day Saint Militia’.
Session IVd
Kaylee van der Steeg, ‘“The War of Liberation in Britain’s First and Last Colony” (CJ 4/2774): The Troubles of Northern Ireland’.
Benjamin Pfannes, ‘Faith as a Bridge: The Role of the Church in the Franco-German Brigade’.
17.10–17.20 Coffee Break
17.20–18.20 Plenary 3
Chair: Canon Prof. Michael Snape
Prof. Doris Bergen, ‘Who Remembers the Wehrmacht Chaplains? Christianity, World War II and the Holocaust’.
18.20–18.30 Close of Conference