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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 28 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399516013
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 51 black and white illustrations, 29 colour illustrations 700
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Short description:
Examines how mechanisms of change and conversions harrowed and transformed early modern people and their worlds.
MoreLong description:
Conversion machines are apparatuses, artfully-fashioned preparations, arrangements and things that demonstrate processes of change. They are paradoxical ? at once intent on verifying what was invisible, uncertain and even unknowable, while also acting as sowers of dissimulation.
This study does not seek to mechanise conversion. In many ways, conversion and the transformation of the convert will remain ineffable. Instead, this collection maintains that conversion of all kinds must unfold in ecologies that include politics, law, religious practice, the arts and the material and corporeal realms. Shifting the focus from subjectivity toward the operations of governments, institutions, artifices and the body, contributors consider how early modern Europeans suffered under the mechanisms of conversion, how they were sometimes able to realise themselves by dint of being caught up in the machinery of sovereignty, how they invented scores of new, purpose-built conversional instruments and how they experienced forms of radical transformation in their own bodies.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction, Paul Yachnin and Bronwen Wilson
2. The Conversional Politics of Compliance: Oaths and Autonomy in Henrician England, Peter Marshall
3. The Sepulchre Group: A Site of Artistic, Religious, and Cultural Conversion, Ivana Vranic
4. Stony Bundles and Precious Wrappings: The Making of Patio Crosses in Sixteenth-Century New Spain, Anthony Meyer
5. The Conversion of the Built Environment: Classical Architecture and Urbanism as a Form of Colonization in Viceregal Mexico, Juan Luis Burke
6. Material and Spiritual Conversions: Jacopo Ligozzi and the Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia (1612), Bronwen Wilson
7. ‘Haeretici typus, et description’: Heretical and Anti-Heretical Image-Making in Jan David S.J.’s Veridicus Christianus, Walter Melion
8. Disorientation as a Conversion Machine in The Island of Hermaphrodites (1605), Kathleen Long
9. Dynamic Conversions: Grief and Joy in George Herbert’s Musical Verse, Anna Lewton-Brain
10. Theatres of Machines and Theatres of Cruelty: Instruments of Conversion on the Early Modern Stage, Yelda Nasifoglu
11. Body or Soul: Proving Your Religion in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Eric Dursteler
12. What Machines Cannot Do: A Leibnizian Animadversion, Justin Smith
13. Human Conversion Machines: Hamlet and Others, Paul Yachnin.
