My current project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, offers a new perspective on how the Reformation affected identity, exploring how British Protestants defended their confessional stances while traveling abroad. It focusses on cross-confessional debates held over meals, encounters that juxtaposed the tradition of affording hospitality to strangers, along with the Eucharistic overtones of sharing food and drink, with fraught, even dangerous, discussions of religious difference. CCaCEME employs a variety of written and material sources, including pilgrimage narratives, etiquette books, conversion stories, and decorated tableware, to illuminate the intersections between travel, foodways, and religious identity.
