Conversions :  gender and religious change in early modern Europe / 
edited by Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith. 
 - 1 online resource (xv, 336 pages ):  illustrations, maps. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-325) and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781526107046 152610704X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1500-1699 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Conversion--History.<br/>Sex role--Religious aspects.<br/>BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth<br/>BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / General<br/>RELIGION / Christianity / General<br/>RELIGION / Devotional<br/>RELIGION / Spirituality<br/>Conversion.<br/>Religion.<br/>Sex role--Religious aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--Religion--16th century.<br/>Europe--Religion--17th century.<br/>Europe.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL639  / .C6595 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>204.209