Conversions: Gender and religious change in early modern Europe

by Simon Ditchfield (Editor), Helen Smith (Editor)

Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Reformation. Chapters deal with topics as diverse as convent architecture and missionary enterprise, the replicability of print and the representation of race. Bringing together leading scholars of literature, history and art history, Conversions offers new insights into the varied experiences of, and responses to, conversion across and beyond Europe. A lively Afterword by Professor Matthew Dimmock (University of Sussex) drives home the contemporary urgency of these themes and the lasting legacies of the Reformations.

352 pages, Hardcover

Published January 3, 2017

About the author

Simon Ditchfield is a Reader in the History Department at the University of York. His research interests all relate to perceptions and uses of the past in previous societies