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050 4 _aBL639.C668 2017
082 0 _a204.209
100 1 _aDitchfield, Simon.
245 1 0 _aConversions :
_bGender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aManchester :
_bManchester University Press,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017.
300 _a1 online resource (353 pages)
336 _atext
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505 0 _aCover -- 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.
520 _aA 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aConversion--History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aSmith, Helen.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aDitchfield, Simon
_tConversions
_dManchester : Manchester University Press,c2017
_z9780719099151
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4789585
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