Saturday, 10 April 2010, 9:00-10:30
PURGATORY AND ITS EARLY MODERN DISPLACEMENTS
Don Orione - Sala Vivaldi
Sponsor: CENTRE FOR EARLY MODERN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Organizer: ANDREW GORDON, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Chair: HELEN M. OSTOVICH, MCMASTER UNIVERSITY
THOMAS C. K. RIST, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, KING’S COLLEGE
“Their Purgative Imagination”: Cathartic Drama and the Spirit of Medicine in Reforming England
NICHOLAS THOMPSON, UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND
Negotiation on Prayer for the Dead and Purgatory in the Era of the Religious Colloquies, 1539-1546
ANDREW GORDON, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
The Ghost of Pasquil: The Uses of Purgatory in Early Modern Comedy