Fictions of Conversion : : Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England / / Jeffrey S. Shoulson.
The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "The Jews Perverted and the Gentiles Converted": Confessions and Conversos
- Chapter 2. "Thy People Shall Be My People": Typology, Gender, and Biblical Converts
- Chapter 3. "The Meaning, Not the Name I Call": Converting the Bible and Homer
- Chapter 4. Alchemies of Conversion: Shakespeare, Jonson, Vaughan, and the Science of Jewish Transmutation
- Chapter 5. Conversion and Enthusiasm: Radical Religion and the Poetics of Paradise Regained
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments