Judith Roche is a PhD candidate at the Institute of the History of the Reformation, specialising in late sixteenth-century religious history. Her Master’s thesis studied confessional controversies through the cooking-pot motif.
The lecture examines how polemical works used the cooking pot as a charged symbol—ranging from infernal instrument to emblem of communal difference—to fuel Manichaean narratives and exacerbate Catholic–Protestant tensions. Roche explores the visual and rhetorical strategies that shaped confessional identities in sixteenth-century France.
In French.
