Anti-Catholicism across British History (c.1520-2000)

这个网络汇集了来自一系列学科（历史，艺术史，文学，社会心理学，政治学，社会学，神学）的学者，他们在不同的历史时期（16世纪到19世纪）工作，将反天主教视为现代英国历史的一个主要方面。它的标题“英国历史上的反天主教”指的是这样一个事实，即宗教改革后英国历史上每个世纪的学者都认为反天主教在一系列历史事件和进程中发挥着核心作用：宗教改革、内战、排斥危机、光荣革命、民族认同、帝国、自由和理性等开明概念的出现，以及反爱尔兰和反法国情绪的形成是最突出的例子。然而，就目前情况而言，这一主题一直是在零碎的、逐期的基础上进行研究的。从更长远的角度来看，该网络将考虑反天主教（特别是）和偏见（一般）是如何随着时间的推移而发展的，以及它是如何发展的。该网络将学者聚集在一起，以考虑反天主教在英国历史不同时期的相似和不同之处。它将开发方法来研究一种偏见在一段重要时期内的适应方式，考虑刻板印象和表现在维持和适应反天主教偏见方面的作用，并试图质疑阴谋论在政治和宗教运动中的目的。该网络将通过比较时间视角的优势，鼓励对反天主教的新思考方式，并创建一个关于反天主教不宽容在4个世纪中如何发展的总体视角。它的发现不仅对英国历史学者发展未来的研究很重要，而且通过引入社会心理学、历史和文学研究的对话方法，该网络的研究将促进研究方法的发展，这些研究方法将使研究各种形式偏见的学者在一系列学科中感兴趣。该网络将主要包括4个讲习班。第一个（在纽卡斯尔）将考虑在英国历史的漫长过程中调查反天主教所必需的方法，调查当前的研究模式和范式，努力制定新的方法策略，并在4个世纪的网络研究中得出连续性和对比。第二个（在Ushaw学院）将引入关于社会心理学和历史中的刻板印象的对话奖学金，以询问不同的方法，以期培养新的方法。第三个（在奥克兰城堡）将考虑几个世纪以来在维持反天主教方面的表现（文本和视觉）的作用。最后一个研讨会（在纽卡斯尔）考虑了阴谋论如何在英国历史的关键时刻创造了“教皇制”作为伟大“他者”的大师叙事。再一次，跨学科的比较方法（特别是历史和社会心理学）将培养新的方法来接近这个主题。与广大市民的合作将主要通过网络的互动网站进行。这将允许公众评论和回应网络的论文和播客的公开讲座，并积极参与将于2018年11月举行的在线研讨会。公众还将通过在线展览参与网络（该展览将与网络的合作机构：Ushaw学院和奥克兰城堡共同创建）。

This network brings together scholars from a range of disciplines (History, Art History, Literature, Social Psychology, Politics, Sociology, Theology) and who work on a diverse range of historical periods (the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries) to consider anti-Catholicism as a major aspect of modern British History. Its title "Anti-Catholicism in British History" refers to the fact that scholars of each century of British History after the Reformation have accorded anti-Catholicism a central role in a range of historical events and processes: the Reformation, Civil Wars, Exclusion Crisis, Glorious Revolution, national identities, empire, the emergence of enlightened concepts like liberty and reason, and the formation of anti-Irish and anti-French sentiment being the most prominent examples. As it stands, however, the topic has been studied in a piecemeal, period-by-period basis. By taking a longer perspective, the network will consider how anti-Catholicism (in particular) and prejudice (in general) develops over time and what it develops in response to. The network will bring scholars together in order to consider how anti-Catholicism functioned similarly and differently in different periods of British history. It will develop methodologies for researching the ways in which a prejudice adapts across a significant period of time, consider the roles which stereotypes and representations had in sustaining and adapting anti-Catholic prejudice and seek to interrogate the purpose of conspiracy theories to political and religious movements. The network will encourage new ways of thinking about anti-Catholicism through the benefit of comparative chronological perspectives, and create an over-arching perspective on how anti-Catholic intolerance developed over the course of 4 centuries. Its findings will be important in developing future research not just for scholars of British History but, by bringing into dialogue approaches in Social Psychology, History and Literature Studies, the network's research will foster research methodologies which will be of interest to scholars of all forms of prejudice in a range of disciplines.The network will principally involve 4 workshops. The first (in Newcastle) will consider the methodologies necessary to investigate anti-Catholicism in the longue duree of British history, investigate current research models and paradigms, work towards formulating new methodological strategies, and draw out continuities and contrasts across the 4 centuries of the network's research. The second (at Ushaw College) will bring into dialogue scholarship on stereotypes in Social Psychology and History to interrogate contrasting approaches with a view to fostering new methodologies. The third (at Auckland Castle) will consider the role of representations (textual and visual) in sustaining anti-Catholicism across the centuries. The final workshop (at Newcastle) considers the ways in which conspiracy theories created master-narratives of "popery" as the great "Other" at crucial moments in British history. Once again, comparing approaches across disciplines (History and Social Psychology in particular) will foster new methodologies for approaching the topic.Collaboration with a wider public will principally be maintained through the network's interactive website. This will allow the public to comment on and respond to the network's papers and podcasts of its public lectures, and to be actively involved in the on-line symposium which will be held in November 2018. The public will also be engaged in the network through an on-line exhibition (which will be created in conjunction with the network's partner institutions: Ushaw College and Auckland Castle).