Tuesday 7 May 2013

'The World is Our House' Hereford Cathedral 21 June 2013

This conference is advertised on behalf of Hannah Thomas of Swansea University:

A Midsummer symposium on international Jesuit culture, 15401700, 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.

Information about the programme and booking is available on the conference blog here: http://worldisourhouse.blogspot.co.uk/