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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lieke Stelling , Harald Hendrix , Todd RichardsonPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 23 Weight: 0.806kg ISBN: 9789004218567ISBN 10: 9004218564 Pages: 396 Publication Date: 06 January 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsNotes on the Editors List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction LIEKE STELLING AND TODD M. RICHARDSON PART ONE - AUTHENTICITY La Confession Catholique du Sieur de Sancy: The Swan Song of the Zealous Protestants MATHILDE BERNARD 'The Conversion of Christian II of Denmark in Roman Catholic Diplomatic Literature, 1530-1532 FEDERICO ZULIANI 'Thy Very Essence is Mutability': Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama, 1558-1642 LIEKE STELLING Turning Persia: The Prospect of Conversion in Safavid Iran CHLOE HOUSTON Narrating Conversion and Subjecthood in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands E. NATALIE ROTHMAN PART TWO - AGENCY 'Most necessarily to be knowne': The Conversion Narratives of Samuel Smith PHILIP MAJOR Converting England: Mysticism, Nationalism, and Symbolism in the Poetry of John Donne JAYME M. YEO Conversion in James Shirley's St Patrick for Ireland (1640) ALISON SEARLE Salutary Reading: Conversion and Calvinist Humanism in Constantijn Huygens' Ooghentroost LISE GOSSEYE PART THREE - IMITATION Between Conversion and Apostasy: Moriens's Struggle and the Fate of the Soul JOHN R. DECKER The Sermons of a Rabbi Converted to Christianity: Between Synagogue and Church SHULAMIT FURSTENBERG-LEVI Parabolic Analogy and Spiritual Discernment in Jeronimo Nadal's Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia of 1595 WALTER S. MELION Sight and insight: Paul as a Model of Conversion in Rhetoricians' Drama BART RAMAKERS Rhetorics of the Pulpit XANDER VAN ECK Bibliography Index NominumReviewsThis stimulating collection of essays, published in Brill's series Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, exemplifies the virtues of intersectionality and interdisciplinarity. This is particularly appropriate for a volume on conversion: a multifarious phenomenon that, as the volume's editors remind us, raises questions of theology, ecclesiology, psychology, politics, aesthetics, and gender. Molly Murray, Columbia University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 3, Fall 2014, p. 960. Author InformationLieke Stelling is a junior researcher at the University of Leiden. Her PhD thesis, which focuses on representations of religious conversion in early modern English drama, will be completed in the course of 2012. She has published essays on the work of Shakespeare and Massinger; an article on the Nachleben of St. Augustine's conversion is due to appear in 2012. Harald Hendrix, PhD (1993) in Italian Studies, is full professor and chair of Italian Studies and head of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Utrecht. He has published widely on the European reception of Italian Renaissance and Baroque culture, on the early modern aesthetics of the non-beautiful as well as on literary culture and memory. Amongst his recent publications is the edited volume Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory (2007). Todd M. Richardson, Ph.D. (2007) in Art History, is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Art Discourse in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands (2011) and the co-editor of two volumes: The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Art (2011) and Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2008). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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