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Conversions : Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526107046
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: ConversionsDDC classification:
  • 204.209
LOC classification:
  • BL639.C668 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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