International RefoRC Colloquium

Reformed Majorities and Minorities:

Confessional Boundaries and Contested Identities

Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw
in cooperation with the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden

Warsaw, 2224 September 2014


Day 1: Early Modern Confessional Identities
22 September


18:00-18:15 Opening remarks (Jerzy Axer, Herman Selderhuis, Piotr Wilczek)

18:1519:15 Opening lecture
Chair: Piotr Wilczek
Jakub Koryl (Jagiellonian University, Cracow), Sources of Collectivity: Mythical Groundwork of Early
Modern Identities

19:30-22:00 Dinner


Day 2: Mapping the Boundaries of the Reformed World
23 September


9:0010:30 Session 1. Alternative Reformed Identities: The Case of the Spanish Reformation (I)
Chair: TBA
David Estrada (Universidad de Barcelona), Juan de Valds: Doctrinal Heir of the Pre-Reformed
Group of the Dexados and Father of the Spanish Protestant Reformation
Frances Luttikhuizen (Centro de Investigacin y Memoria del Protestantismo Espaol, Sevilla),
Reformed Literature in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Christopher Matthews (Southern California Seminary, San Diego & Al ndalus Theological Seminary,
Sevilla), A Reformed Hiding Place in Sixteenth-Century Seville. The Significance of the
Monastery of St. Isidore

10:3011:00 Coffee break

11:0012:30 Session 2. Transcending Difference
Chair: TBA
Gbor Ittzs (Kroli Gspr University, Budapest), From Bullinger to Specker: The Reformed Origins
of the Lutheran Doctrine of the Souls Immortality in the Sixteenth Century
Simon Burton (University of Warsaw), From Minority Discourse to Universal Method: Polish Chapters
in the Evolution of Ramism
Micha Choptiany (University of Warsaw), Comets, Letters and Confessions: The Culture of
Interconfessional Scholarly Dispute in Stanisaw Lubienieckis Theatrum cometicum

12:3013:30 Session 3. Alternative Reformed Identities: The Case of the Spanish
Reformation (II)
Chair: TBA
Jose Moreno (Alczar de San Juan), The Rationale behind the Spanish Reformation Bible
Mara Martn Gmez (Universidad de Salamanca), Die Rezeption der Reformation in Spanien

13:3014:30 Lunch break

14:3016:30 Session 4. Contested Reformed Identities: Between Reform and Radical Reform
Chair: Simon Burton
Alessandra Celati (Universit di Pisa), A Peculiar Reformed Minority: Italian Protestant Physicians
between Religious Propaganda, Inquisition Repression and Freedom of Thought
Sebastian Sobecki (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Capable of all publike offices: Protestants in John
Peytons A Relation of the State of Polonia (159899)
Jan-Andrea Bernhard-Schmid (Universitt Zrich), Die italienische Fremdengemeinde in Piczw bei
Krakau: Wiederentdeckte und unbekannte Schriften aus Zrcher Archiven
Maarten Kater (Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn), The Anti-Toleration Principle Within the Scottish
Covenanting Movement

16:3017:00 Coffee break

17:0019:00 Session 5. Beyond the Reformed Pale: Quakers and Socinians
Chair: Micha Choptiany
Borbla Lovas (MTA-ELTE HECE), Catholics or Calvinists? The Target of Enyedis Unitarian
Sermons in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Transylvania
Magdalena Luszczynska (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Inter-Faith Disputation, Christian
Hebraism, and a Leadership Campaign: The Multidimensional Character of Marcin
Czechowics Anti-Jewish Polemics
Pawe Rutkowski (University of Warsaw), Witches, Frogs and Papists: Representing Quakers in
Seventeenth-Century England
Gizella Keser (University of Szeged), The Limits of Brotherly Cooperation. Polish Brethren and
Transylvanian Unitarians in the Seventeenth Century

19:30-22:00 Dinner



Day 3: Reformed Majorities and Minorities in a Political, Social and Intellectual Context
24 September

9:0010:30 Session 6: Civic Life
Chair: Herman Selderhuis
Maximilian Scholz (Yale University), Reformed Survival in Frankfurt am Main, 15551618
Mihly Balzs (University of Szeged), From Majority to Minority. Transylvanian Unitarianism at the
Turn of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Marta Makus (Museum of the Wschowa Land), Katholiken in lutheranischer Stadt. Der Fall
Wschowas (Fraustadts) in der frhen Neuzeit

10:3011:30 Session 7: Social Experience and Social Codes
Chair: TBA
Oana-Valentina Sorescu (Graduiertenschule fr Ost- und Sdosteuropastudien & Universitt
Regensburg), Will-Witnessing and Confessionalization in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania: A
Study of Last Wills and Testaments from Sibiu (Hermannstadt)
Joanna Partyka (University of Warsaw), British Protestants and Womens Freedom to Write

11:3012:00 Coffee break


12:0013:00 Session 8: Majority/Minority Dialectics
Chair: TBA
Felicita Tramontana (Universit degli Studi di Palermo), An Unusual Setting: Catholics Meeting
Protestants in the Ottoman Middle East
Barbara A. Kaminska (University of California, Santa Barbara), Religious Minority between Triumph
and Persecution: Frans Hogenbergs Hedge-preaching outside Antwerp and the Flemish
Community in Cologne

13:0013:45 Lunch break

13:45-15:15 Session 9: (Re)asserting Reformed Identity
Chair: TBA
Dariusz Bryko (Tolle Lege Institute, Columbia, SC), Greeted by the Spirit of Christian Philanthropy:
William B. Sprague on Behalf of the Nineteenth-Century Polish Exiles in Albany, New York
Kazimierz Bem (independent researcher, Boston, MA), Presbyterian, Episcopal or a Still, Better Way?
The Struggle of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Reformed Christians in the Polish-
Lithuanian Commonwealth with Their Church Polity
Leon van den Broeke (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), The Walloon Classis in the Northern
Netherlands: Reformed Minority within the Reformed Majority

15:15-16:00 Closing remarks and roundtable discussion



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