INTRODUCTIONThroughout a period of dramatic change in Europe,
characterized by the development of printing, the literary
affirmation of vernacular languages, the discovery of formerly
unknown places and cultures, the definition of intellectual
professions and political theories of government, and the spread of
new religious doctrines, the Bible remained a book of reference for
ecclesiastics and laics alike. Even in Catholic countries, in which
Biblical translations were forbidden, the laity drew upon the Bible
as a source of ethical, cultural and professional inspiration. The
aim of the international symposium, that will mark the culmination
of LE STUDIUM-CESR project entitled The Laity and the Bible:
Religious Reading in Early Modern Europe (1470-1650), is to
illustrate recent comparative research studies of the contribution
that Biblical readings made to the evolution of some of the
essential aspects of modernity. Interpreting the Sacred Scriptures
represented a means of reinforcing critical perspectives and
autonomous behavior, and the symposium will provide an opportunity
to clarify the connections between the laity and the Bible that had
an impact on different aspects of early modern European
countries/cultures and explore how they helped or hindered their
evolution towards modernity.
13H30 Registration14H00 Official opening
• Scientific director of LE STUDIUM, Pr Nicola Fazzalari• Dr
Elise Boillet – Pr Erminia Ardissino
CHAIR: SABRINA CORBELLINI
14H20 Pr Gordon Campbell
Fides ex auditu: Hearing the Bible in Antiquity and in Early
Modern Europe.15H10 Coffee break
15H30 Pr Max Engammare
Lay Debates about the Sacrality of the Bible in Sixteenth
Century Geneva.
16H20 Pr Jean-Pierre Cavaillé
Some Irreligious Uses of the Bible in the Early Modern
Period.
CHAIR: GORDON CAMPBELL
09H00 Pr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
The Bible and the Early Modern Catholic Tradition.
09H50 Pr Wim François Towards a ‘Confessionalisation’ of
Vernacular Bibles in the Sixteenth Century: The Case of the Low
Countries.10H40 Coffee break
11H00 Dr Margriet Hoogvliet Reading the Gospels in the Life and
Passion of Christ in French (ca. 1400-ca. 1550).
20H00 Dinner
CHAIR: WIM FRANÇOIS
08H30 Dr Concetta Pennuto
Francisco Vallés’s De sacra Philosophia: a Medical Reading of
the Bible.
09H20 Dr Stefano Gattei
The Finger and the Tongue of God. Johannes Kepler, Reformation
Theology and the New Astronomy
10H10 Pr Erminia Ardissino
Women Interpreting Genesis in Early Modern Italy. 11H00 Coffee
break11H20 Pr Sabrina Corbellini & Pr Max Engammare
Round Table
12H00 LunchCHAIR: STEFANO GATTEI
14H00 Pr Ignacio Javier Garcia Pinilla The Debate on Bible
Reading by Lay People in Spain in the Sixteenth Century.
14H50 Dr Elise BoilletLay and Religious Authors and Readers of
Early Modern Printed Italian Books on the Bible.15H40 Coffee
break
16H00 Pr Xavier Bisaro The Other Psalm Singing: Biblical
Training in the French Catholic petites écoles around 1600.19H30
Gala dinner
24 NOVEMBER 2015
26 NOVEMBER 2015
25 NOVEMBER 2015
18.30 LE STUDIUM LECTURE
Pr François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles Sous le signe de Jonas:
Bible et civilisation europenne.
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CONFERENCESTOURS | 2015
Lay Readings of the Bible in Early Modern Europe
PROGRAMME
CONVENORSPr Erminia Ardissino LE STUDIUM RESEARCH FELLOW
FROM from University of Torino - Italy IN RESIDENCE at CESR
(Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance - UMR CNRS 7323 -
University François-Rabelais of Tours) - Tours, France.
Dr Elise Boillet CESR (Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la
Renaissance – UMR CNRS 7323 - University François-Rabelais of
Tours) - Tours, France.
LOCATIONCESR (Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance),
Salle Rapin 59 Rue Néricault Destouches 37000 Tours
24-26 November 2015
SPEAKERS
Pr Gordon CampbellUniversity of Leicester, Leicester - United
Kingdom
Pr Jean-Pierre CavailléEHESS Compreignac - France
Dr Erminia ArdissinoUniversity of Torino - Italy
Dr Elise BoilletCentre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance,
Tours - France
Pr François Dupuigrenet DesroussillesFlorida State University
Tallahassee - USA
Pr Margriet HoogvlietUniversity of Groningen - Netherlands
Pr Ignacio Javier Garcia PinillaUniversidad de Castilla -La
Mancha Toledo - Spain
Pr Max EngammareInstitut d’Histoire de la Réformation de
l’Université de Genève, Geneva - Switzerland
Pr Wim François KU Leuven – Faculty of Theology and Religious
Studies Leuven - Belgium
Pr Stefano GatteiChemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia -
USA
Dr Tadhg Ó HannracháinUniversity College Dublin - Ireland
Pr Xavier BisaroCentre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance,
Tours - France
Pr Sabrina CorbelliniUniversity of Groningen – Department of
Medieval History Groningen - Netherlands
Pr Concetta Pennuto Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la
Renaissance, Tours - France
www.lestudium-ias.fr1, rue Dupanloup • 45000 Orléans •
France
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