| Description |
1 online resource (412 pages) : color illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Intersections ; v. 23
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 23.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Conversion in art.
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Conversion in art. |
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Conversion in literature.
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Conversion in literature. |
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European literature -- History and criticism.
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European literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Stelling, Lieke.
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Hendrix, Harald.
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Richardson, Todd.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stelling, Lieke. Turn of the Soul : Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature. Leiden : BRILL, ©2012 9789004218567 |
| ISBN |
9789004226371 (electronic book) |
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9004226370 (electronic book) |
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128342634X |
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9781283426343 |
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