Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes:
New Approaches to Early Modern Sermons in Manuscript
3-5 October 2024 at the Congregational Library and Archives, Boston, & Harvard Divinity School
Presented by GEMMS: Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons
See details and registration information here.
Locations:
Congregational Library and Archives, 14 Beacon St., Boston, MA
Braun Room, 101 Swartz Hall, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA
DAY 1 Thursday, 3 October (Congregational Library)
2:30-3:30 Panel 1 Sermon Shorts: Brief Interventions in Sermons Manuscript Studies
Jeanne Shami and Anne James (University of Regina)
Welcome to GEMMS: the App and the Conference
David M. Powers (Independent scholar)
“Some Quirky Features of John Pynchon’s 1640 Sermon Notes”
Gui Nabais Freitas (Trinity College, University of Cambridge)
“Godly Mourning and Protestant Cambridge in Harley MS 976”
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:15 Keynote 1 David Hall (Harvard Divinity School)
“Beyond ‘Doctrine’: What was Being Said in Early New England?”
5:15 Reception*
DAY 2 Friday, 4 October (Braun Room, Harvard Divinity School)
8:30-9:00 Light breakfast (provided)*
9:00-10:30 Panel 2 Performative preaching: the learned and the ludic
Nathan Nocchi (Westminster Theological Seminary)
“Conciones ad clerum: A Lacuna in the Current Research”
Thomas Santa Maria (Harvard Divinity School)
“A Humorless Mock Sermon? Beinecke MS 731, Humor, and Biblical Interpretation”
Arnold Hunt (University of Durham)
“The Sermon Manuscripts of Richard Steward”
10:30-11:00 Break (provided)*
11:00-12:30 Panel 3 Colonial Contexts: Catechesis, Collaboration, and the Circulation of Sermons
Adrian Weimer (Providence College)
“Sermons in the ‘Praying Towns’: Evidence from the Daniel Gookin Manuscripts”
Ben Leeming (Independent Scholar)
“The Nahuatl (Aztec) Sermonary of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, OFM: The Americas' First Sermons”
Avery Sprey (Westminster Theological Seminary)
“Performance or Print? Reading the Sermons of Obadiah Sedgwick”
12:30-2:00 Lunch (provided)*
2:00-3:30 Panel 4 Gathering Gems: New Methods in Sermon Studies
Jennifer Farooq (Independent Scholar)
“Reusing, Recycling, and Inheriting Sermons: Trends and Patterns in the Re-Preaching of Sermons, 1600-1715”
Brent Nelson (University of Saskatchewan)
“Doing things with GEMMS”
Heidi Campbell (Baylor University)
“Woman of Power or Disempowered Woman?: Deborah in Paul’s Cross Sermons, 1558-1625”
3:30-4:00 Break (provided)*
4:00-5:30 Keynote 2 Francis J. Bremer (Millersville University of Pennsylvania)
“John Winthrop and his Sermon Notebook”
DAY 3 Saturday, 5 October (Braun Room, Harvard Divinity School)
8:30-9:00 Light Breakfast (provided)*
9:00-10:30 Panel 5 Communities, Networks, and Local Practice
Mary Morrissey (University of Reading)
“Sermons and Early Modern London’s Emotional Communities”
Chelsea McKelvey (Clemson University)
“‘From woman to woman’: Sermons as Networks for Women”
Katharine Olson (San Jose State University & Bangor University)
“‘Pinnacles Of Preaching’ And ‘Dulcet Language’?: Sermons, Language, and Reformation in Early Modern Wales”
10:30-11:00 Break (provided)*
11:00-12:30 Panel 6 Clergy, Polemic, and Politics
Brent S. Sirota (North Carolina State University)
“Korah and Counter-Enlightenment: Preaching against Sacrilege in Early Eighteenth-Century England”
Samuel Fullerton (University of North Texas)
“Parodying Peter: Assessing a (Forged?) Puritan Sermon of 1643”
Hannah Wood (St Thomas More College)
“Preaching Poverty Post-Dissolution: Changing Frameworks in Sermons”
12:30-2:00 Break (Lunch provided)*
2:00-3:30 Panel 7 Auditors, Receivers and Notetakers
Jennifer Egloff (NYU Shanghai)
“‘Sermons Preached by Mr Mather’: Reception of Puritan Divines’ Preaching in the Early Modern English Atlantic”
Abigail Hill (Boston College)
“‘A discourse made’: Audiences, Auditors, and Preachers’ Communication in 17th-Century Sermon Receptions”
Lauren Holmes (University of Salford)
“‘Had I opportunity but to borrow some of the author’s wit’: Anne Bradstreet and the Sermons of John Woodbridge”
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:30 Keynote 3 Ann Hughes (Keele University)“‘The Churches cordiall in her fainting fits’: Lay People Recording Sermons in the English Revolution”
*Food and refreshments are provided for registered attendees only.
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