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 and Helen Smith.
• Editors: Ditchfield, Simon; Smith, Helen, 1977-
• 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 conversions5 '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. Luria10 '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
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 336 pages ), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 204.209; Conversion -- History; Sex role -- Religious aspects; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / General; RELIGION / Christianity / General; RELIGION / Devotional; RELIGION / Spirituality; Conversion; Religion; Sex role -- Religious aspects; Europe -- Religion -- 16th century; Europe -- Religion -- 17th century; Europe; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526107046
• Related ISBNs: 152610704X; 0719099153; 9780719099151
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-325) and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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