The Architecture of Conversion in Early Modern Europe

Goldsmiths, University of London, April 10, 2025 - April 11, 2025

Decorative greyscale image of the ruins of an abbey

 

All sessions take place in the Richard Hoggart Building, room 137

Tea and Coffee will be served in room 141

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Thursday 10 April

 

10:00-10:45: Tea and Coffee in RHB 141

 

10:45: Welcome

RHB 137

Abigail Shinn

 

11:00-12:30: The Architecture of Conversion in time

Chair: Antonio Urquízar-Herrera

John Schofield, City of London Archaeology Trust, ‘The Architecture of Conversion in London, 1530-1600’

Adam Blitz, Technical Evaluation Mission Expert, International Council on Monuments and Sites, ‘Arche-textures – the legacy of Erfurt’s Altesynagoge. Reconfiguration and Reformation Thought in Early Modern Thuringia’

Harriet Lyon, University of Cambridge, ‘”Raised out of the Ruins”: Converted Religious Houses in Reformation England’

 

12:30-13:30: Lunch

 

13:30-15:00: Conversion and Sacred Space

Chair: Harriet Lyon

Jaap Geraerts, Mainz University, ‘A “big, spacious, and beautiful church”: Catholic clandestine churches in the eighteenth-century province of Holland’

Róisín Watson, Open University, ‘Consecration sermons and defining Lutheran church space’

Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes, ‘Synagogue, Church, Temple: St Sauveur, Orléans and Reformed Worship, c. 1563–69’

 

15:00-15:30: Break

 

15:30-16:30: Plenary

Chair: Abigail Shinn

Antonio Urquízar-Herrera (UNED Madrid), ‘Martyrs, Relics and the Conversion of Medieval Mosques in Early Modern Spain’

 

18:00: Dinner

Everest Curry King, 24 Loampit Way, Lewisham

 

Friday 11 April

 

10:00-11:30: Conversion and Dissolution

Chair: Andrew Spicer

Lee Morrissey, Clemson University, ‘Buckland Abbey and the Conversion of Architecture’

Isla Dixon Dawson, Bristol University, ‘The Dissolution Years: Local Society, Augmentations, and the Negotiation of Monastic Legacy in Urban Environments’

Sophie Anderson, Cambridge University, ‘Lacock Abbey’

 

11:30-11:45 Tea and Coffee

 

11:45-13:00: The Poetics of Architectural Conversion

Chair: Abigail Shinn

Ella Alton, University of Sheffield, ‘”Strain[ing] […] through Heaven’s Gat”: Depictions of Architectural Conversion in Andrew Marvell’s “Upon Appleton House’ (1651)”‘

Hannah Kirwan, UC Berkeley, ‘“Blessed be the Architect”: Spatial Poetics in George Herbert’s ‘Church Floor’

 

13:00-14:00 Lunch

 

14:00-15:30: Conversion and the English stage

Chair: TBC

Abigail Shinn, Goldsmiths, University of London ‘Profane Topography: The Architecture of Conversion and Early Modern Drama’

Callan Davies, University of Southampton, ‘The Theatre and Curtain, Sybil Newdigate, and the End of Holywell Priory’

Stewart Mottram, University of Hull, ‘Storms and steeples in Shakespeare’s King Lear’

 

15:30-16:30: Roundtable discussion
‘What is the architecture of conversion?’

 

Drinks in the Shirker’s Rest, Lewisham Way

 

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Contact: Abigail Shinn, a.shinn@gold.ac.uk

 

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The Architecture of Conversion in Early Modern Europe
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London
Start Date: April 10, 2025
Start Time: 10:00 am
End Date: April 11, 2025
End Time: 4:30 pm
Ticket Price: Free
Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-architecture-of-conversion-in-early-modern-europe-tickets-1232763471729?aff=oddtdtcreator