Reformation Events

5pm-6pm
Edmund Wareham, Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection Research Fellow at the Pitts Theology Library of the University of Emory, will be taking part in a Kessler Conversation to discuss his project 'Making and Breaking Vows in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany'. As part of the conversation Edmund will draw on his work with the Taylor Reformation pamphlet collection to discuss the future of online editions and student collaboration. https://www.bigmarker.com/pitts-theology-library/Kessler-Conversations-Kessler-Fellows3-2020-10-21-12-00-pm

Lecture by Dr Lucy Wooding

3pm-4pm St Mary's Church Hall OX4 4EG
Read the resume of the talk at https://livingstonesiffley.org.uk/past-events/f/lecture-by-dr-lucy-wooding>

Tours of the church, bell tower (tbc) and Glebe Field will be offered as part of Oxford Open Doors

2.15pm-4.15pm St Mary's Church Hall OX4 4EG

2.30pm-3.30pm Professor Henrike Lähnemann Workshop/sing-along in the Hall, on “The Reformation in our Hymnbooks”
3.45pm-4.45pm Dr Katie Bank and Dr Jonathan Tyack in the Church, Lecture-recital illustrating developments in English church music during the 16C
5pm-6pm Tours of the Bell Tower (tbc) and Tea in the Church Hall
6.30pm Sung evensong

2.30pm-7.30pm St Mary's Church OX4 4EJ and Iffley Church Hall OX3 4EG

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nicholas Orme. What was it like to go to Iffley Church on a Sunday morning in 1530? And how different would it have seemed if you went back again thirty years later? Nicholas Orme will discuss how the Reformation changed many aspects of churches and their worship while at the same time leaving many others unchanged.

Nicholas Orme has been professor of history at Exeter University and an honorary Lay Canon of Truro Cathedral. He is the author of thirty books, including Medieval Children, Medieval Schools, The History of England's Cathedrals, and the forthcoming Going to Church in Medieval England.

2.30pm - 3.30pm, St Mary's Church Hall OX4 4EG

Somerville College, Park Building, room 5 .

Sarah-Maria Schober (Basel and Oxford) ‘Disgusting Objects in Early Modernity’

Pusey House, Oxford, OX1 3LZ

This mini-exhibition within the beautiful library at Pusey House uses contemporary printed books, manuscripts and artefacts to look at how the Tractarians reconciled their Catholic Anglican faith with the Reformation of the 15th and 16th centuries, and how the Oxford Movement itself created a new Reformation within the Church of England in the 19th century.

St Michael at the Northgate, Cornmarket St, Oxford OX1 3EY

Cantata 129 “Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott” will be performed in the context of an evening service.

Schola Musicae, Old Schools Quad of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, OX1 3BG

Print your own Theses at the Bodleian Print Workshop. The doors will be open and visitors can print for free their own copy, plus typeset their name for a letter of indulgence.

Pusey House, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ. Ursell Room

Professor Henrike Lähnemann will be giving a seminar on “Singing the Psalms in sixteenth century Germany” as part of TORCH’s The Oxford Psalms Network lecture series.

2017 sees the 500th anniversary of the publication of the German Reformation. Its rapid spread was based on two decisive factors: printing and singing. The new genre of the Protestant hymn book contained a large proportion of Psalms in German paraphrase. At the same time, Latin psalm singing continued in the monastic setting both in the Hours and as form of personal devotion. The lecture will look at the personalised Psalters as well as the popular appeal of congregational singing of hymns based on Psalms, taking in as most prominent example Luther’s versification of Psalm 46 in ‚Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott‘.

Summertown United Reformed Church, 294A Banbury Rd, Oxford OX2 7HN

Henrike Lähnemann will speak on ‘Luther’s Legacy’ in the last of the Summertown URC Spring Talks. On the occasion of the quincentenary of Luther’s publication of the 95 theses, this talk explores the legacy of the German Reformation. A particular focus will be on congregational singing and how the hymns shaped Protestant identity in Germany and Britain to the present day. We will look at (and sing) examples from the first Protestant hymnbook printed in 1524 in Erfurt to the current URC ‘Rejoice and Sing’.

Henrike Lähnemann is Professor of Medieval German Language and Literature and coordinates the ‘Reformation 2017’ project in Oxford. She is a member of St Columba’s URC and a keen singer. There will be tea and opportunity for further discussion after the lecture.