The turn of the soul : representations of religious conversion in Early Modern art and literature /
Focusing on conversion as one of early modern Europe's most pressing issues, the present book offers a comprehensive reading of artistic and literary ways in which spiritual transformations and exchanges of religious identities were given meaning.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
BRILL,
2012.
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| Series: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 23. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- La confession catholique du Sieur de Sancy: the swan song of the zealous protestants
- The conversion of Christian II of Denmark in Roman Catholic diplomatic literature, 1530-1532
- 'Thy very essence is mutability': religious conversion in Early Modern English drama, 1558-1642
- Turning Persia: the prospect of conversion in Safavid Iran
- Narrating conversion and subjecthood in the Venetian-Ottoman borderlands
- 'Most necessarily to be knowne': the conversion narratives of Samuel Smith
- Converting England: mysticism, nationalism, and symbolism in the poetry of John Donne
- Conversion in James Shirley's St Patrick for Ireland (1640)
- Salutary reading: conversion and Calvinist humanism in Constantijn Huygens' Ooghentroost
- Between conversion and apostasy: Moriens's struggle and the fate of the soul
- The sermons of a rabbi converted to Christianity: between synagogue and church
- Parabolic analogy and spiritual discernment in Jéronimo Nadal's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia of 1595
- Sight and insight: Paul as a model of conversion in rhetoricians drama
- Rhetorics of the pulpit.
