Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture – Conference

Registration

Suzanne Marchand

'The Death of Romanticism and its Philological and Historical Consequences'

Respondent: Glenn Most (University of Chicago)

Lunch

Katherine Harloe (University of Reading)

'Heyne’s Biblical-Classical Comparison: Contexts, Character and Reception'

Respondent: Theodor Dunkelgrün (University of Cambridge)

Break

Brian Young (University of Oxford)

'George Grote and some Contemporaries: Atheist and Christian Conceptions of Greek Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Britain'

Respondent: Scott Mandelbrote (University of Cambridge)

Martha Vandrei (University of Exeter)

'Universalising Disciplines in the Nineteenth-Century: Responses to a Fragmenting World'

Respondent: Jocelyn Betts (University of Cambridge)

Break

Jeremy Morris (University of Cambridge)

'The Politics of Liturgical Renewal: Christian Antiquity, Scripture and Confessional Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century'

Respondent: Tim Larsen (Wheaton College)

Kate Nichols (University of Birmingham)

'Biblical Imagery and the Invention of Victorian Art at the 1887 Manchester Jubilee Exhibition'

Respondent: Shinjini Das (University of Cambridge)

Break

Alex Bremner (University of Edinburgh)

'Between ‘Popes and Caesars’: St Paul, Protestant Bible Culture, and the Building of the American Episcopal Church in Rome'

Respondent: Michael Ledger-Lomas (King’s College London)

Ayla Lepine (University of Essex)

'Jerusalems New and Old: Tracing Biblical Echoes in Britain and America’s Utopian Twentieth-Century Cathedral'

Respondent: Carrie Vout (University of Cambridge)

Norman Vance (University of Sussex)

'Martial, St Paul and the Essex Girl: a Legend Revived'

Respondent: Gareth Atkins (University of Cambridge)

Break

Ruth Abbott (University of Cambridge)

'George Eliot in the Biblioteca Magliabechiana'

Respondent: Stefano Evangelista (University of Oxford)

Lunch

Brian Murray (King’s College London)

'The Martyr of Melanesia: The Cult of Coleridge Patteson'               

Respondent: Kirstie Blair (University of Strathclyde)

Break

Robert Priest (Royal Holloway, University of London)

'The Principle of Oberammergau is Fused with that of Athens: The Biblical and the Classical at the Oberammergau Passion Play, 1830 –1910'

Respondent: Ruth Jackson (University of Cambridge)

Final Words

Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)