University of Galway History Research Seminar: Defection and disclosure: The German Jesuits and the problem of apostasy in the sixteenth century 

University of Galway History Research Seminar

Defection and disclosure: 

The German Jesuits and the problem of apostasy in the sixteenth century

Dr Richard Kirwan (University of Limerick) 

Biography
Dr Richard Kirwan is a Senior Lecturer in History and an Irish Research Council Laureate. He is the P.I. of ‘Malcontents: Order and Disorder in the Early Modern World of Learning,’ a four-year project funded by an Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate award. His research interests include the social and cultural history of early modern universities and the world of learning, early modern print culture, and the culture and politics of religious conversion. Dr Kirwan’s publications include the monograph Empowerment and Representation at the University in Early Modern Germany: Helmstedt and Würzburg, 1576-1634 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009), and the edited volumes Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), and Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World (Leiden: Brill, 2015). Prior to taking up his position at the University of Limerick, Dr Kirwan held posts at the University of St Andrews, the European University Institute, Florence, Maynooth University, and Trinity College Dublin.

Registration

This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/96743869754.

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Seminars are not recorded.

This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

Image: detail from Antichristus (woodcut) by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553).