Conversions : Gender and religious change in early modern Europe / / edited by Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith
| Conversions : Gender and religious change in early modern Europe / / edited by Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations, tables |
| Disciplina | 204.2 |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - Religious aspects
Conversion - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-5261-2105-0
1-5261-0704-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Simon Ditchfield and Helen Smith -- part I. Gendering conversion -- 1. To piety or conversion more prone? Gender and conversion in the early modern Mediterranean / Eric Dursteler -- 2. The quiet conversion of a 'Jewish' woman in eighteenth-century Spain / David Graizbord -- 3. 'A father to the soul and a son to the body' : gender and generation in Robert Southwell's Epistle to his father / Hannah Crawforth -- 4. Gender and reproduction in the Spirituall experiences / Abigail Shinn -- part II. Material conversions -- 5. 'The needle may convert more than the pen' : women and the work of conversion in early modern England / Claire Canavan and Helen Smith -- 6. Uneven conversions : how did laywomen become nuns in the early modern world? / Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt -- 7. Domus humilis : the conversion of Venetian convent architecture and identity / Saundra Weddle -- 8. Converting the soundscape of women's rituals, 1470-1560 : purification, candles, and the Inviolata as music for churching / Jane D. Hatter -- part III. Travel, race, and conversion -- 9. Narrating women's Catholic conversions in seventeenth-century Vietnam / Keith P. Luria -- 10. 'I wish to be no other but as he' : Persia, masculinity, and conversion in early seventeenth-century travel writing and drama / Chlo{uml}e Houston -- 11. Turning tricks : erotic commodification, cross-cultural conversion, and the bed-trick on the English stage, 1580-1630 / Daniel Vitkus -- 12. Whatever happened to Dinah the Black? And other questions about gender, race, and the visibility of Protestant saints / Kathleen Lynch -- Afterword / Matthew Dimmock. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480458203321 |
| Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2017 | ||
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From death to life : conversion in Joseph and Aseneth / / Randall D. Chesnutt
| From death to life : conversion in Joseph and Aseneth / / Randall D. Chesnutt |
| Autore | Chesnutt Randall D. <1951-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1995] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
| Disciplina | 229/.911 |
| Collana |
Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha. Supplement series
Library of Second Temple studies |
| Soggetto topico | Conversion - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-19696-4
9786613196965 0-567-34769-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. PROLEGOMENA; Chapter 1; HISTORY OF RESEARCH; Chapter 2; TEXT, ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, CHARACTER, PROVENANCE, DATE AND GENRE: THE PRESENT STATE OF RESEARCH; Part II. DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 3; THE LITERARY CONTEXT SOCIAL TENSIONS IN THE NARRATIVE OF ASENETH'S CONVERSION; Chapter 4; FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL FEATURES OF ASENETH's CONVERSION; Part III. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; Introduction to Part III; Chapter 5; JEWISH PROSELYTISM; Chapter 6
INITIATION INTO GROUPS WITHIN JUDAISM: ESSENES, THERAPEUTAE, HABUROTH, GNOSTICS AND MERKABAH MYSTICSChapter 7; MYSTERY INITIATION; Chapter 8; CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461820303321 |
Chesnutt Randall D. <1951->
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| Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1995] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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From death to life : conversion in Joseph and Aseneth / / Randall D. Chesnutt
| From death to life : conversion in Joseph and Aseneth / / Randall D. Chesnutt |
| Autore | Chesnutt Randall D. <1951-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1995] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
| Disciplina | 229/.911 |
| Collana |
Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha. Supplement series
Library of Second Temple studies |
| Soggetto topico | Conversion - History |
| ISBN |
1-283-19696-4
9786613196965 0-567-34769-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. PROLEGOMENA; Chapter 1; HISTORY OF RESEARCH; Chapter 2; TEXT, ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, CHARACTER, PROVENANCE, DATE AND GENRE: THE PRESENT STATE OF RESEARCH; Part II. DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 3; THE LITERARY CONTEXT SOCIAL TENSIONS IN THE NARRATIVE OF ASENETH'S CONVERSION; Chapter 4; FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL FEATURES OF ASENETH's CONVERSION; Part III. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; Introduction to Part III; Chapter 5; JEWISH PROSELYTISM; Chapter 6
INITIATION INTO GROUPS WITHIN JUDAISM: ESSENES, THERAPEUTAE, HABUROTH, GNOSTICS AND MERKABAH MYSTICSChapter 7; MYSTERY INITIATION; Chapter 8; CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789685403321 |
Chesnutt Randall D. <1951->
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| Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1995] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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From death to life : conversion in Joseph and Aseneth / / Randall D. Chesnutt
| From death to life : conversion in Joseph and Aseneth / / Randall D. Chesnutt |
| Autore | Chesnutt Randall D. <1951-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1995] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
| Disciplina | 229/.911 |
| Collana |
Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha. Supplement series
Library of Second Temple studies |
| Soggetto topico | Conversion - History |
| ISBN |
1-283-19696-4
9786613196965 0-567-34769-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. PROLEGOMENA; Chapter 1; HISTORY OF RESEARCH; Chapter 2; TEXT, ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, CHARACTER, PROVENANCE, DATE AND GENRE: THE PRESENT STATE OF RESEARCH; Part II. DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 3; THE LITERARY CONTEXT SOCIAL TENSIONS IN THE NARRATIVE OF ASENETH'S CONVERSION; Chapter 4; FORMAL AND CONCEPTUAL FEATURES OF ASENETH's CONVERSION; Part III. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; Introduction to Part III; Chapter 5; JEWISH PROSELYTISM; Chapter 6
INITIATION INTO GROUPS WITHIN JUDAISM: ESSENES, THERAPEUTAE, HABUROTH, GNOSTICS AND MERKABAH MYSTICSChapter 7; MYSTERY INITIATION; Chapter 8; CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826041403321 |
Chesnutt Randall D. <1951->
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| Sheffield : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1995] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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