Conversions : Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe.
Ditchfield, Simon.
Conversions : Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (353 pages)
Cover -- Conversions -- Contents -- Lists of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith -- Part I: Gendering conversion -- 1 To piety or conversion more prone? Gender and conversion in the early modern Mediterranean - Eric Dursteler -- 2 The quiet conversion of a 'Jewish' woman in eighteenth-century Spain - David Graizbord -- 3 'A father to the soul and a son to the body': gender and generation in Robert Southwell's Epistle to his father - Hannah Crawforth -- 4 Gender and reproduction in the Spirituall experiences - Abigail Shinn -- Part II: Material conversions -- 5 'The needle may convert more than the pen': women and the work of conversion in early modern England - Claire Canavan and Helen Smith -- 6 Uneven conversions: how did laywomen become nuns in the early modern world?- Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt -- 7 Domus humilis: the conversion of Venetian convent architecture and identity - Saundra Weddle -- 8 Converting the soundscape of women's rituals, 1470-1560: purification, candles, and the Inviolata as music for churching - Jane D. Hatter -- Part III: Travel, race, and conversion -- 9 Narrating women's Catholic conversions in seventeenth-century Vietnam - Keith P. Luria -- 10 'I wish to be no other but as he': Persia, masculinity, and conversion in early seventeenth-century travel writing and drama - Chloë Houston -- 11 Turning tricks: erotic commodification, cross-cultural conversion, and the bed-trick on the English stage, 1580-1630 - Daniel Vitkus -- 12 Whatever happened to Dinah the Black? And other questions about gender, race, and the visibility of Protestant saints - Kathleen Lynch -- Afterword - Matthew Dimmock -- Bibliography -- Index.
A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and early modern spaces across and beyond Europe.
9781526107046
Conversion--History.
Electronic books.
BL639.C668 2017
204.209
Conversions : Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (353 pages)
Cover -- Conversions -- Contents -- Lists of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith -- Part I: Gendering conversion -- 1 To piety or conversion more prone? Gender and conversion in the early modern Mediterranean - Eric Dursteler -- 2 The quiet conversion of a 'Jewish' woman in eighteenth-century Spain - David Graizbord -- 3 'A father to the soul and a son to the body': gender and generation in Robert Southwell's Epistle to his father - Hannah Crawforth -- 4 Gender and reproduction in the Spirituall experiences - Abigail Shinn -- Part II: Material conversions -- 5 'The needle may convert more than the pen': women and the work of conversion in early modern England - Claire Canavan and Helen Smith -- 6 Uneven conversions: how did laywomen become nuns in the early modern world?- Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt -- 7 Domus humilis: the conversion of Venetian convent architecture and identity - Saundra Weddle -- 8 Converting the soundscape of women's rituals, 1470-1560: purification, candles, and the Inviolata as music for churching - Jane D. Hatter -- Part III: Travel, race, and conversion -- 9 Narrating women's Catholic conversions in seventeenth-century Vietnam - Keith P. Luria -- 10 'I wish to be no other but as he': Persia, masculinity, and conversion in early seventeenth-century travel writing and drama - Chloë Houston -- 11 Turning tricks: erotic commodification, cross-cultural conversion, and the bed-trick on the English stage, 1580-1630 - Daniel Vitkus -- 12 Whatever happened to Dinah the Black? And other questions about gender, race, and the visibility of Protestant saints - Kathleen Lynch -- Afterword - Matthew Dimmock -- Bibliography -- Index.
A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and early modern spaces across and beyond Europe.
9781526107046
Conversion--History.
Electronic books.
BL639.C668 2017
204.209