Promiscuous Presbyterians and Misbehaving Ministers

• 📅Fri 29 Jan 2027 · 13:00
• 📍Public Record Office of Northern Ireland — All events
  2 Titanic Boulevard Titanic Quarter, Belfast, BT3 9HQ, Belfast, Northern Ireland, GB

This event features historian Leanne Calvert discussing "Promiscuous Presbyterians and Misbehaving Ministers," a lecture exploring sex, courtship, and moral disorder within Presbyterian communities in North America between 1700 and 1830. It examines how congregations and church courts disciplined ministers and laypeople for sexual misconduct, revealing attitudes toward gender, sexuality, and respe