Speaker: Professor Peter Sherlock (University of Divinity, Melbourne)
Date: Monday 5 December 2016
Time: 1pm-2pm
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room (1.33, first floor, Arts Building), The University of Western Australia
Registration: This is a free event and RSVPs aren’t required.
Enquiries: Dr Joanne McEwan (joane.mcewan@uwa.edu.au)
The idea of the Reformation as an event had emerged in historical scholarship by the end of the seventeenth century. New research led by Alexandra Walsham and Brian Cummings is revealing how the reformers were commemorated in a range of ritual and material forms. Although monuments were themselves transformed by reformed doctrine and ritual, this paper seeks to answer the question, did they represent the Reformation itself?
Professor Peter Sherlock is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia and author of Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England (2008) and several book chapters and journal articles on memory and commemoration in early modern Europe.
Image: Memorial to Elizabeth Stafford (d. 1598), St Mary's church, Nettlestead, Kent (c) Copyright Julian P Guffogg and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
