"Religious Violence and Tolerance: the Case of English Reformation" the Paper by Anna Seregina

On 23 January 2020 the next session of the regular seminar “Christianity in the History of Medieval and Modern Europe” was held at the Centre for French-Russian Studies (Moscow). The seminars in the series are convened conjointly by the Centre for Medieval Studies, HSE, Centre for French-Russian Studies, and the Centre for Ukrainian and Belorussian Studies (Faculty of History, Moscow Lomonosov State University).

At the seminar, discourses of religious violence and confessional intolerance were discussed as part of the English Reformation. On agenda were the following questions:

Religious violence and English Protestantism in the 16^th–17^th centuries: academic interpretations
What was the role of doctrinal and exegetical ideas in kindling bouts of violence in 16^th–17^th century England?

The seminar built on the discussion at the previous session which had featured the talk by I.A. Fadeev (Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences) “Church of England and Anglican Identity”.

The central piece of the current session was the paper by Anna Seregina (Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences) "Religious Violence and the Co-existence of Different Confessions in England in the 16th 17th centuries" coupled with the discussion of her recent books (in Russian):

The Political Thought of English Catholics of the late 16^th – early 17^th centuries (St Petersburg, 2006)
The English Catholic Society in the 16^th–17^th centuries: Montagu viscontes(Moscow; St Petersburg, 2017)
London and Reformation: the Life of the British Capital under Tudors (1485–1603) (St Petersburg, 2020).