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Title The turn of the soul : representations of religious conversion in Early Modern art and literature / edited by Lieke Stelling, Harald Hendrix, Todd M. Richardson
Published Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (412 pages) : color illustrations
Series Intersections ; v. 23
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 23.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Conversion in art.
Conversion in literature.
European literature -- History and criticism
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Conversion in art
Conversion in literature
European literature
Literatur
Kunst
Bekehrung
Konversion.
Bekehrung.
Konversion.
Motiv.
Conversion -- Dans l'art -- 1500-1800 -- Thèmes, motifs.
Conversion -- Littérature -- 1500-1800 -- Thèmes, motifs.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Stelling, Lieke.
Hendrix, Harald.
Richardson, Todd.
ISBN 9789004226371
9004226370
128342634X
9781283426343
9789004218567
9004218564