Conversions : gender and religious change in early modern Europe / edited by Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-325) and index.

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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

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

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

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.

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