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To piety or conversion more prone? Gender and conversion in the early modern Mediterranean / Eric Dursteler -- The quiet conversion of a "Jewish" woman in eighteenth-century Spain / David Graizbord -- "A father to the soul and a son to the body": gender and generation in Robert Southwell's Epistle to his father / Hannah Crawforth -- Gender and reproduction in the Spirituall experiences / Abigail Shinn -- "The needle may convert more than the pen": women and the work of conversion in early modern England / Claire Canavan and Helen Smith -- Uneven conversions: how did laywomen become nuns in the early modern world? / Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt -- Domus humilis: the conversion of Venetian convent architecture and identity / Saundra Weddle -- Converting the soundscape of women's rituals, 1470-1560: purification, candles, and the Inviolata as music for churching / Jane D. Hatter -- Narrating women's Catholic conversions in seventeenth-century Vietnam / Keith P. Luria -- "I wish to be no other but as he": Persia, masculinity, and conversion in early seventeenth-century travel writing and drama / Chloë Houston -- Turning tricks: erotic commodification, cross-cultural conversion, and the bed-trick on the English stage, 1580-1630 / Daniel Vitkus -- Whatever happened to Dinah the Black? And other questions about gender, race, and the visibility of Protestant saints / Kathleen Lynch -- Afterword / Matthew Dimmock. |
