Programme details released

The agenda and programme of events has now been finalised for our symposium on 21 June 2013, and will feature a series of lectures exploring different elements of the rich and varied culture of the Society of Jesus in the early modern period, ending with a celebration of the re-evaluation of the Cwm Jesuit Library, housed at Hereford Cathedral since 1679. The day will be finished off with a fabulous concert of music associated with Jesuit colleges in the early modern era, featuring some familiar names as well as some newly discovered pieces.

Booking details to follow soon, full programme below (click on the link for a downloadable PDF):

Conference Agenda

'The World is Our House': the seventeenth-century 
Hereford Cwm Jesuit Library in an international context

Friday 21 June 2013, Hereford Cathedral

A Midsummer symposium on international Jesuit culture, 1540–1700, with an evening concert of early Jesuit music, to celebrate the re-evaluation of the Cwm Jesuit Library, housed at Hereford Cathedral since 1679. The library, the largest surviving seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary library in Britain, is currently being analysed in depth as part of an exciting joint project between Swansea University and Hereford Cathedral, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The study day will place the library within its larger international context by exploring the rich and fascinating world of seventeenth-century Jesuit culture.

The symposium and concert have been made possible thanks to generous sponsorship from the Jesuit Institute in London, the British Province of the Society of Jesus,
and a donor who wishes to remain anonymous.

10.00 – Registration and coffee in College Hall, Hereford Cathedral, HR1 2NG

10.30 – Welcome and setting the context
Canon Chris Pullin, Chancellor, Hereford Cathedral
Professor Maurice Whitehead, Swansea University

Panel One: Jesuit Arts, Science and Music in the early modern period

10.45 – The Jesuits and the Arts, 1540–1700
Professor Peter Davidson, University of Aberdeen

11.15 – The Jesuits and Science, 1540–1700
Dr Adam Mosley, Swansea University

11.45 – The Jesuits and Music, 1540–1750
Dr Peter Leech, Swansea University

12.15 – Questions and Discussion

12.30–14.00 – Buffet Lunch, with time to view the exhibitions of early Jesuit books and music, and sacred treasures from the Special Collections at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, as well as the Hereford Mappa Mundi and Chained Library exhibition.

Panel Two: The Jesuits in late-sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Wales

14.00 – The Jesuits in England and Wales, 1580–1700: an overview
Reverend Dr Thomas McCoog, SJ, Fordham University, New York, and Archivist of the British Province of the Society of Jesus, London

14.30 – Helen Wintour and Jesuit vestment-making in seventeenth-century
Worcestershire
Janet Graffius, Curator of Special Collections, Stonyhurst College

15.00 – The Cwm Jesuit Library at Hereford Cathedral
Hannah Thomas, PhD candidate, Swansea University

15.30 – Questions and Discussion

16.00 – Closing comments
Canon Chris Pullin, Chancellor, Hereford Cathedral
Professor Maurice Whitehead, Swansea University

16.15–17.15 – Exhibitions open Hereford Mappa Mundi and Chained Library exhibition close
at 17.00

17.30–18.15 – Opportunity to attend Choral Evensong in Hereford Cathedral, featuring
unaccompanied seventeenth-century music
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19.30 – Concert

THE WORLD IS OUR HOUSE
Music associated with Jesuit colleges in the early modern era, 1600–1750

CAPPELLA FEDE
Musical Director – Peter Leech

Works by William Byrd, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Matthew Locke,
Marc-Antoine Charpentier and others, including the first modern performances of some recent archival discoveries.
St Francis Xavier’s RC Church, Broad Street, Hereford, HR4 9AP

For further information, please visit the conference web page worldisourhouse.blogspot.com
e-mail
library@herefordcathedral.org
or call 01432 374225/6