Villanova PMR Conference

Villanova hosts an excellent conference each fall in patristic, medieval, and renaissance studies, and this year's theme is "After Constantine: Religion, Politics, Culture, and Counterculture." This Sunday, October 28, marks the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, establishing Constantine as the sole emperor of the Roman Empire and beginning his conversion to Christianity. The keynote speakers are Robert Wilkin of Virginia and William Klingshirn of CUA (program here). I will be presenting a paper on "Robert Bellarmine and the Freedom of the Church" on a panel alongside my Villanova colleague Matthew Rose and Stefania Tutino of UC-Santa Barbara, author of two splendid books: Law and Conscience: Catholicism in Early Modern England, 1570-1625 (Ashgate, 2007) and Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth (Oxford, 2010).