Many great figures in nineteenth-century theology stress the importance for them of Romantic writers and poets such as Walter Scott, S.T. Coleridge, William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. Yet the importance of the vocabulary of Romanticism on nineteenth-century religious thought has been little examined. A philologist and a theologian seek to remedy this in this presentation.
Featuring:
Prof Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith is Professor Emeritus in English Language and Linguistics, University of Glasgow, and an Honorary Professor in the University of St Andrews. He specialises in English historical linguistics, the history of Scots, and book history. Recent publications include Transforming Early English (Cambridge UP, 2020), Genre in English Medical Writing 1500-1820 (co-edited with Irma Taavitsainen, Turo Hiltunen and Carla Suhr, also Cambridge UP, 2022), and Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England (with David Jasper, Boydell and Brewer, 2023). Current projects include a corpus-based study of the English religious lexicon, 1380-1850, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
Prof David Jasper
David Jasper is Emeritus Professor of the University of Glasgow where he was Professor of Theology and Literature for many years. He is an honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Edinburgh. He recently collaborated with Jeremy Smith in their book Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England (2023).
