{"product_id":"conversions-gender-and-religious-change-in-early-modern-europe-9781526143556","title":"Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConversions \u003c\/i\u003eis 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, \u003ci\u003eConversions\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This excellent collection of essays examines conversion at a time in which religious and theological uncertainties led to the reconfiguration of early modern European national identities. Ranging across regions and cities, from London to Venice, the essays also focus on issues of gender, hybridity and literary conventions. This book is an important addition to the growing body of scholarship on the study of the history of religion in Western Europe.'\u003cbr\u003eNabil Matar, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This stimulating collection yields new insights into the fluid, unstable and creative relationship between gender and conversion in early modern Europe. Approaching the subject from a range of perspectives, it comprises a series of probing investigations of the nexus between religious subjectivity and gender identity against the backdrop of the Catholic and Protestant Reformations. A model of interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration, it demonstrates compellingly how language, literature and culture reflected and shaped individual experiences of spiritual change.'\u003cbr\u003e Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Offers an engrossing gallery of new work that makes a compelling case for embracing methodologically diverse approaches to the interface of gender and religious conversion in early modernity.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProfessor Lowell Gallagher, Studies in English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on contributors\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction – Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Gendering conversion\u003cbr\u003e1 To piety or conversion more prone? Gender and conversion\u003cbr\u003ein the early modern Mediterranean – Eric Dursteler\u003cbr\u003e2 The quiet conversion of a ‘Jewish’ woman in eighteenthcentury\u003cbr\u003eSpain – David Graizbord\u003cbr\u003e3 ‘A father to the soul and a son to the body’: gender and\u003cbr\u003egeneration in Robert Southwell’s Epistle to his father –\u003cbr\u003eHannah Crawforth\u003cbr\u003e4 Gender and reproduction in the Spirituall experiences –\u003cbr\u003eAbigail Shinn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Material conversions\u003cbr\u003e5 ‘The needle may convert more than the pen’: women\u003cbr\u003eand the work of conversion in early modern England –\u003cbr\u003eClaire Canavan and Helen Smith\u003cbr\u003e6 Uneven conversions: how did laywomen become nuns in the\u003cbr\u003eearly modern world?– Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt\u003cbr\u003e7 Domus humilis: the conversion of Venetian convent\u003cbr\u003earchitecture and identity – Saundra Weddle \u003cbr\u003e8 Converting the soundscape of women’s rituals, 1470–1560:\u003cbr\u003epurification, candles, and the Inviolata as music for\u003cbr\u003echurching – Jane D. Hatter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Travel, race, and conversion\u003cbr\u003e9 Narrating women’s Catholic conversions in seventeenthcentury\u003cbr\u003eVietnam – Keith P. Luria \u003cbr\u003e10 ‘I wish to be no other but as he’: Persia, masculinity, and\u003cbr\u003econversion in early seventeenth-century travel writing and\u003cbr\u003edrama – Chloë Houston\u003cbr\u003e11 Turning tricks: erotic commodification, cross-cultural\u003cbr\u003econversion, and the bed-trick on the English stage,\u003cbr\u003e1580–1630 – Daniel Vitkus\u003cbr\u003e12 Whatever happened to Dinah the Black? And other questions\u003cbr\u003eabout gender, race, and the visibility of Protestant saints –\u003cbr\u003eKathleen Lynch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword – Matthew Dimmock\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041004355927,"sku":"9781526143556","price":24.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526143556.jpg?v=1750948570","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conversions-gender-and-religious-change-in-early-modern-europe-9781526143556","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}