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The turn of the soul : representations of religious conversion in Early Modern art and literature /

Focusing on conversion as one of early modern Europe's most pressing issues, the present book offers a comprehensive reading of artistic and literary ways in which spiritual transformations and exchanges of religious identities were given meaning.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stelling, Lieke, Hendrix, Harald, Richardson, Todd
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2012.
Colección:Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 23.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • La confession catholique du Sieur de Sancy: the swan song of the zealous protestants
  • The conversion of Christian II of Denmark in Roman Catholic diplomatic literature, 1530-1532
  • 'Thy very essence is mutability': religious conversion in Early Modern English drama, 1558-1642
  • Turning Persia: the prospect of conversion in Safavid Iran
  • Narrating conversion and subjecthood in the Venetian-Ottoman borderlands
  • 'Most necessarily to be knowne': the conversion narratives of Samuel Smith
  • Converting England: mysticism, nationalism, and symbolism in the poetry of John Donne
  • Conversion in James Shirley's St Patrick for Ireland (1640)
  • Salutary reading: conversion and Calvinist humanism in Constantijn Huygens' Ooghentroost
  • Between conversion and apostasy: Moriens's struggle and the fate of the soul
  • The sermons of a rabbi converted to Christianity: between synagogue and church
  • Parabolic analogy and spiritual discernment in Jéronimo Nadal's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia of 1595
  • Sight and insight: Paul as a model of conversion in rhetoricians drama
  • Rhetorics of the pulpit.