Religion and the Life Cycle Conference 2018

6 July 2018: ‘Religion and the Life Cycle, 1500 – 1800’

Keynotes:

Professor Elaine Hobby (Loughborough): ‘“We have an example in Scripture” (Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book): Women, Religion, and the Early-Modern Life Cycle’

Dr Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College London): ‘The Children of Israel and the Passage to Adulthood in Early Modern Europe’

The interdisciplinary conference welcomed 22 speakers who presented papers on the following panels:

• The Life Cycle in Art
• Cross-Confessional Contact
• Parenthood
• Rites of Passage
• Religious Childhoods
• Sickness and Death
• Prescription and Practice
• Recording the Life Cycle