Simon Ditchfield is Professor of History at the University of York
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 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 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 - Chlöe 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 Index
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