Wednesday 19 October 2011, 4.30PM
Speaker(s): Jonathan P Willis (Birmingham)
Tea and coffee available at 4.15 ALL WELCOME
Dr Jonathan Willis began a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Durham, in October 2010, to work on a project entitled ‘The Ten Commandments and the English Reformation.’ In September 2011 he took up hiscurrent post at the University of Birmingham.
Jonathan Willis' research explores the nature of religious, social and cultural change during the period of the Reformation, on the most fundamental level concerned with questions of belief and identity, and the relationship between the two. His doctoral research looked at the relationship between church music and Protestant religious identity formation in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. This involved considering the philosophical and theological origins of ideas about music and its power over mankind, as well as a detailed exploration of the practice of music-making in key religious sites, the parish and cathedral church. He has also examined the ways in which music was used as a tool of religious instruction, propaganda and devotion, as well as its ability to foment both harmony and discord in a range of different communities. A monograph and a number of essays and articles stemming from this research are either already published or in preparation for publication.
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Location: Seminar room BS/008, ground floor, Berrick Saul Building
Admission: free