RT Book
T1 Conversions: gender and religious change in early modern Europe
A2 Ditchfield, Simon
A2 Smith, Helen 1977-
LA English
PP Manchester
PB Manchester University Press
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1625442254
AB 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
AB 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
AB 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
AB 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
NO "[...] in York for a 2012 symposium on 'Gender and Conversion in Early Modern Europe'; [...] the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and the Humanities Research Centre at York [...]." (Seite xv)
NO Literaturverzeichnis Seite 290-325
NO Mit Register
CN BL639
SN 9780719099151
K1 Sex role : Religious aspects
K1 Conversion : History
K1 Europe : Religion : 17th century
K1 Europe : Religion : 16th century
K1 Konferenzschrift : 2012 : York