The turn of the soul : representations of religious conversion in Early Modern art and literature / edited by Lieke Stelling, Harald Hendrix, Todd M. Richardson.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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