Conversions : gender and religious change in early modern Europe /: gender and religious change in early modern Europe. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Simon Ditchfield, Helen Smith.
• Editors: Ditchfield, Simon; Smith, Helen, 1977-
• Contents: Notes 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.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 204.2; Conversion -- History; Sex role -- Religious aspects; Europe -- Religion -- 16th century; Europe -- Religion -- 17th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526107053; 9781526107046
• Related ISBNs: 9780719099151
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