Conversions : Gender and religious change in early modern Europe /

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Conversions is 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 represent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, Helen, 1977- (Editor ), Ditchfield, Simon (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sex role > Religious aspects.
Conversion > History.
Europe > Religion > 17th century.
Europe > Religion > 16th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 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 seventeenth-century 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.

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