| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Manchester Shakespeare collection |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
A 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-325) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
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Conversion -- History
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Sex role -- Religious aspects.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Inspiration & Personal Growth.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Devotional.
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RELIGION -- Spirituality.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
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Conversion
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Religion
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Sex role -- Religious aspects
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Geschlecht
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Identität
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Religion
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Frau
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Konversion Religion
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Religion -- 16th century
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Europe -- Religion -- 17th century
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| Subject |
Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ditchfield, Simon, editor
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Smith, Helen, 1977- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781526107046 |
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152610704X |
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9781526121059 |
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1526121050 |
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9781526107053 |
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1526107058 |
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