Conversions: Gender and religious change in early modern Europe - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719099153 ISBN 13: 9780719099151

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Reformation. Chapters deal with topics as diverse as convent architecture and missionary enterprise, the replicability of print and the representation of race. Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history and art history, Conversions offers new insights into the varied experiences of, and responses to, conversion across and beyond Europe. A lively Afterword by Professor Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex) drives home the contemporary urgency of these themes and the lasting legacies of the Reformations.

About this title

About the Author

Simon Ditchfield is Professor of Early Modern History and Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York

Helen Smith is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Head of the Department of English & Related Literature at the University of York

From the Back Cover

In early modern Europe, pressure from the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the growing might of the Ottoman Empire, and New World encounters meant that an unprecedented number of people were confronted by new beliefs and changing religious identities. Conversions brings together leading scholars from across the disciplines of literature, history, art and architectural history to investigate the interlinked transformations of gender and religious identity in this turbulent period.

A lively Afterword by Professor Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex) drives home the lasting legacy of the Reformations and the contemporary urgency of the collected chapters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719099153
• ISBN 13: 9780719099151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Ditchfield Simon, Smith Helen