Literature: history & criticism
Conversions
Gender and religious change in early modern Europe
Edited by Simon Ditchfield, Helen Smith
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Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Reformation. Chapters deal with topics as diverse as convent architecture and missionary enterprise, the replicability of print and the representation of race. Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history and art history, Conversions offers new insights into the varied experiences of, and responses to, conversion across and beyond Europe. A lively Afterword by Professor Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex) drives home the contemporary urgency of these themes and the lasting legacies of the Reformations. Of interest to scholars of early modern history, literature, and architectural history, this collection will appeal to anyone interested in the vexed history of religious change, and the transformations of both masculine and feminine identity.
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In early modern Europe, pressure from the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the growing might of the Ottoman Empire, and New World encounters meant that an unprecedented number of people were confronted by new beliefs and changing religious identities. Conversions brings together leading scholars from across the disciplines of literature, history, art and architectural history to investigate the interlinked transformations of gender and religious identity in this turbulent period. A lively Afterword by Professor Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex) drives home the lasting legacy of the Reformations and the contemporary urgency of the collected chapters.
Author Biography
Simon Ditchfield is Professor of History at the University of York Helen Smith is Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and Reader in Renaissance Literature at the University of York
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date January 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719099151
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 70 GBP
- Pages352
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 x 138 mm
- Illustration12 black & white illustrations, 3 tables
- Biblio NotesNotes on contributors 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 eighteenthcentury 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 seventeenthcentury 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
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