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About
Historical analysis of the Stuart period in British history, running from 1603 to 1714, has rightly concentrated on understanding a series of collapses in political and social order – from the Bishops Wars, 1641 Rebellion in Ulster through the Civil Wars, and the Revolution of 1688 and the War of the Two Kings that followed on. This workshop reverses this perspective by concentrating attention on the nature and understanding of social order in the period, looking at concepts of religious and secular order, relations between the sexes and across ethnic boundaries. In doing so, it will raise issues concerning how historians comprehend the period and glean insight into the kind of social ordering that protagonists in the conflicts concerned normal or desirable.
Programme
Thursday
2.00-2.30: Introductions
Dr Caroline Erskine (Aberdeen)
Dr Michael Brown (Aberdeen)
2.30-4.00: Session One
Ian Campbell (University College Dublin): 'Aristotelianism and Ethnicity before Race: Metaphysics, Medicine, and Genealogy in Seventeenth-Century Ireland'
Laura Hedrick (St Andrews): 'Male and female created he them”: Examining non-binary gender structures in 17th century Scotland'
4.00-4.30 Break
4.30-6.00: Session Two
Mark Sweetnam (Trinity College, Dublin): 'The Ministry in Stuart Ireland'
Christopher Langley (Aberdeen): ‘What is ‘true reformed religione’? Churches, Congregations and Identity in Scotland and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century’
6.00-7.00: Drinks
Friday
9.30-11.30: Session Three
Scott Spurlock (Belfast Bible College): 'Identities Old and New: The Historiography of mid-Stuart Ireland and Scotland'
Eamon Darcy (Trinity College, Dublin): "shee was no souldier to go out and defend them": The social hierarchy during the 1641 Irish rebellion Ben Bankhurst (King’s College London), 'Migration, demographic scaremongering, and anti-Presbyterianism in late Stuart Ireland and eighteenth-century British America'
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-1.00: Respondent and Open Forum
Respondent: Karin Bowie (Glasgow)
- Venue
- University of Aberdeen, Humanities Manse