TY - BOOK AU - Ditchfield,Simon AU - Smith,Helen TI - Conversions: gender and religious change in early modern Europe SN - 9781526107046 AV - BL639 .C6595 2017 U1 - 204.209 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Conversion KW - History KW - Sex role KW - Religious aspects KW - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth KW - bisacsh KW - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / General KW - RELIGION / Christianity / General KW - RELIGION / Devotional KW - RELIGION / Spirituality KW - fast KW - Religion KW - Europe KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-325) and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1452591 ER -