Libraries and Books: Places and Spaces of Devotion c.1600-1800

The programme of this second workshop on Places and Spaces of Devotion c. 1600-18.00 is as follows:

8.45 - Tea and Coffee

9.15 - Welcome

9.30 - Session 1

Hannah Barker, 'It is important that we do not pass a day without reading some religious work: lay reading practice in the north of England 1730-1840'

Cath Otton-Goulder, 'Learning and devotion: the use of parochial libraries in the East Riding between 1567 and 1730'

Melanie Bigold, 'Devotional bookscapes: where and what were women reading, 1660-1820'

11.00 - Tea and coffee break

11.30 - Session 2

Maddy Keighley-Phillips, 'From the home to the cloister: the journey of English Catholic women's books'

Hannah Thomas, 'Sheltering from the storms: Jesuits, Libraries and the Bar Convent York'

12.30 - Lunch

1.45 - Session 3

Jason McElligott, 'Incompatible audiences? The tension between religious ideals and public access in Marsh's Library, Durham, 1707-1850'

Scott Mandelbote, 'Reading and Devotion in the Books and Libraries of John Cosin'

Adrian Green, 'Bishop Cosin's Library as an exemplar of learning'

3.15 - Tea and coffee break

3.45 - Session 4

Robert Whan, 'Library spaces, books and their uses in Ulster during the long eighteenth century'

David Wykes, 'The closet, the study and household devotion: Dissenters and the private use of books in late Stuart England'

4.45 - Where next?

5.00 - Close