Conversions gender and religious change in early modern Europe / edited by Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith.
| Other author | Ditchfield, Simon. |
| Other author | Smith, Helen, 1977- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017. |
| Description | xv, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | To piety or conversion more prone? Gender and conversion in the early modern Mediterranean / Eric Dursteler -- The quiet conversion of a "Jewish" woman in eighteenth-century Spain / David Graizbord -- "A father to the soul and a son to the body": gender and generation in Robert Southwell's Epistle to his father / Hannah Crawforth -- Gender and reproduction in the Spirituall experiences / Abigail Shinn -- "The needle may convert more than the pen": women and the work of conversion in early modern England / Claire Canavan and Helen Smith -- Uneven conversions: how did laywomen become nuns in the early modern world? / Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt -- Domus humilis: the conversion of Venetian convent architecture and identity / Saundra Weddle -- Converting the soundscape of women's rituals, 1470-1560: purification, candles, and the Inviolata as music for churching / Jane D. Hatter -- Narrating women's Catholic conversions in seventeenth-century Vietnam / Keith P. Luria -- "I wish to be no other but as he": Persia, masculinity, and conversion in early seventeenth-century travel writing and drama / Chloë Houston -- Turning tricks: erotic commodification, cross-cultural conversion, and the bed-trick on the English stage, 1580-1630 / Daniel Vitkus -- Whatever happened to Dinah the Black? And other questions about gender, race, and the visibility of Protestant saints / Kathleen Lynch -- Afterword / Matthew Dimmock. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-325) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017288362 |
| ISBN | 0719099153 |
| ISBN | 9780719099151 |