Conversion Machines : : Apparatus, Artifice, Body /

Conversion Machines : : Apparatus, Artifice, Body / / ed. by Bronwen Wilson, Paul Yachnin.

Examines how mechanisms of change and conversions harrowed and transformed early modern people and their worldsBrings forward the history of made things and the history of practices as a new way of understanding the social and political dimensions of early modern conversion (mostly religious convers...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
MitwirkendeR:
Burke, Juan Luis,
Dursteler, Eric R.,
HerausgeberIn:
Wilson, Bronwen,
Yachnin, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Conversions : CONV
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 51 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE
  • 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 WHAT MACHINES CANNOT DO: A LEIBNIZIAN ANIMADVERSION
  • 13 HUMAN CONVERSION MACHINES: HAMLET AND OTHERS
  • INDEX

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