Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic world

Kirsten Macfarlane (University of Chicago) in conversation with Adam Smyth and Lloyd Pratt on Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (Oxford: 2025)

Date and Time: 10 June, 5.15-7.00

Location: Merton College, TS Eliot Lecture Theatre.

Situated at the intersection of the history of biblical scholarship, book history and puritan American community, Professor Kirsten Macfarlane’s latest book offers a bold new vision of lay biblical learning in the Atlantic world. Kirsten will be in conversation with experts in book history, Professor Adam Smyth, and in American literature Professor Lloyd Pratt.

1606 Hebrew Map Showing the Dispersal of the Sons of Noah around the World, Hand-coloured and Annotated by Edward Holyoke

This event is part of the English Faculty’s cross-period seminar collaboration and is also part of the Centre for Early Modern Studies’ interdisciplinary Global Conversations series. We hope the conversation may be of interest to scholars and students in Theology, History of the Book, American Literature, American History, early Modern English Literature, Postcolonial and World Literatures and Migration Histories. No need to register: all are welcome; refreshments (wine and soft drinks) to follow.