Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Conversion Machines: Apparatus, Artifice, Body
- 2 The Conversional Politics of Compliance: Oaths and Autonomy in Henrician England
- 3 The Sepulchre Group: A Site of Artistic, Religious, and Cultural Conversion
- 4 Stony Bundles and Precious Wrappings: The Making of Patio Crosses in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
- 5 The Conversion of the Built Environment: Classical Architecture and Urbanism as a Form of Colonisation in Viceregal Mexico
- 6 Material and Spiritual Conversions: Jacopo Ligozzi and the Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia (1612)
- 7 ‘Haeretici typus, et descriptio’: Heretical and Anti-Heretical Image-Making in Jan David, SJ’s Veridicus Christianus
- 8 Disorientation as a Conversion Machine in The Island of Hermaphrodites (1605)
- 9 Dynamic Conversions: Grief and Joy in George Herbert’s Musical Verse
- 10 Theatres of Machines and Theatres of Cruelty: Instruments of Conversion on the Early Modern Stage
- 11 Body or Soul: Proving Your Religion in the Early Modern Mediterranean
- 12 Human Conversion Machines: Hamlet and Others
- 13 Human Conversion Machines: Hamlet and Others
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2025
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editors’ Preface
- List of Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Conversion Machines: Apparatus, Artifice, Body
- 2 The Conversional Politics of Compliance: Oaths and Autonomy in Henrician England
- 3 The Sepulchre Group: A Site of Artistic, Religious, and Cultural Conversion
- 4 Stony Bundles and Precious Wrappings: The Making of Patio Crosses in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
- 5 The Conversion of the Built Environment: Classical Architecture and Urbanism as a Form of Colonisation in Viceregal Mexico
- 6 Material and Spiritual Conversions: Jacopo Ligozzi and the Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia (1612)
- 7 ‘Haeretici typus, et descriptio’: Heretical and Anti-Heretical Image-Making in Jan David, SJ’s Veridicus Christianus
- 8 Disorientation as a Conversion Machine in The Island of Hermaphrodites (1605)
- 9 Dynamic Conversions: Grief and Joy in George Herbert’s Musical Verse
- 10 Theatres of Machines and Theatres of Cruelty: Instruments of Conversion on the Early Modern Stage
- 11 Body or Soul: Proving Your Religion in the Early Modern Mediterranean
- 12 Human Conversion Machines: Hamlet and Others
- 13 Human Conversion Machines: Hamlet and Others
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Conversion MachinesApparatus, Artifice, Body, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2023