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The World in Schwenckfeld's Day

A Symposium on Every Day Life in Sixteeth Century Germany

October 23, 2010
9:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.

Moderator: Dr. Peter C. Erb, Associate Director of Theology, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center

Registration fee: $30.00, includes breakfast, snacks, and lunch

To Register, please contact Michelle Pritt, SLHC Administrative Assistant 215-679-3103 or email Michelle@schwenkfelder.com.

This program has been supported in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities' We the People initiative on American history. The program is also supported in part by the Ladies Aid Society of Central Schwenkfelder Church.

Schedule

Presenter Bios

Dr. Peter C. Erb
Moderator
Peter C. Erb is a graduate of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, Ont (Licentiate in Medieval Studies, 1970) and the University of Toronto (Ph.D. on the appropriation of late medieval spirituality in early German and Dutch Protestantism, 1976). Peter was a faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ont., in the Department of English, 1971-1984, and thereafter in the Department of Religion and Culture, 1984-2008. He has recently retired as Visiting Professor of Catholic Studies through St. Dunstan’s University at the University of Prince Edward Island (2004-2009). He was Associate Director of Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, Pennsburg, Pa., for thirty-two years and is currently the Associate Director of Theology. He also continues to teach and direct students though Waterloo Lutheran Seminary and the Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto.
Dr. Emmet McLaughlin, Professor of Early Modern History, Villanova University
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Keynote Address Religion and Society in Sixteenth Century Germany
R. Emmet McLaughlin is the author of Caspar Schwenckfeld, Reluctant Radical (1986) and The Freedom of the Spirit, Social Privilege, and Religious Dissent: Caspar Schwenckfeld and the Schwenckfelders (1996), as well as articles on the Radical Reformation and the history of the clergy. His current project is a study of the concept of "Spirit" in early modern Europe.
Rev. Luka Ilic, Doctoral Candidate, Lutheran Theological Seminary
10:00 a.m. Arguing in Public: How Printing Changed the World of Debate
Pastor Ilic received his M.A. at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and a Master of Sacred Theology from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, where he is currently a PhD Candidate. A native of Croatia, his interest in Matthias Flacius Illyricus introduced him to Schwenckfeld and the Schwenkfelder community.
Dr. Jill L. Furst, Consulting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology;
11:00 a.m. Food and Sin in the Sixteenth Century
Jill Furst received her B.A. and M.A. from Colorado State University, an M.A. from University of Colorado and her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. She is a retired Professor of Art History from Moore College of Art and Design. She has been a Commonwealth Speaker for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as the Commonwealth Lecture Program of the University of Pennsylvania speaking on a variety of food and medicinal plant related topics.
Dr. Ann Tlusty, Professor of History, Bucknell University
11:45 a.m. Drinking and Tavern Sociability in Sixteenth Century Germany
B. Ann Tlusty has written numerous articles on drinking, violence, military culture, and civic defense in early modern Germany. Her first book, Bacchus and Civic Order: The Culture of Drink in Early Modern Germany (2001) appeared in German in 2005. She has also co-edited two volumes: The World of the Tavern: The Public House in Early Modern Europe and Ehrkonzepte in der Frühen Neuzeit: Identitäten und Abgrenzungen, and her current book manuscript, tentatively entitled The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany: Civic Duty and the Right of Arms, is under contract with Palgrave-Macmillan.
Dr. Michael Baylor, Professor of History, Lehigh University
1:15 p.m. Popular Reformation and Popular Rebellion: The German's Peasants' War
Michael Baylor was born and raised in Illinois, where he received his B.A. from Knox College. He did his graduate work at Stanford University and has taught at Reed College, the University of Texas, and, since 1976, Lehigh University. He is the author of Action and Person: Ideas of Conscience in Late Scholasticism and the Young Luther and has translated and edited The Radical Reformation and Basic Writings of Thomas Müntzer. A book on the German Reformation and the Peasants’ War is in press.
Dr. Hilde Binford, Associate Professor of Music, Moravian College
2:00 p.m. Music Both Common and Noble in the Sixteenth Century
Hilde Binford received her B.A. in history at Rice University and her M.M. in music history from Rice's Shepherd School of Music. Her master's thesis was on Renaissance music. Her Ph.D. in musicology is from Stanford University, where she concentrated on medieval music. Her current research is on the music of the Old Order Amish, Old Colony Mennonites, and Ephrata Cloister. In 2005 she was co-director of the first National Endowment Institute on Johann Sebastian Bach, which has been offered again in 2008 and 2010. She continues to play both the fiddle and the viola da gamba.
Dr. Tom Kinsella, Professor of Literature at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
3:00 p.m.The Art & Craft of German Renaissance Bookbinding
Tom Kinsella is Professor of Literature at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey where he teaches courses on John Milton, Early Irish literature, and grammar, among other topics. He has studied the history of European and American bookbinding for nearly 25 years, and has published two reference works on the topic. His current research is a study of colonial Philadelphia bookbinders of German extraction.