Conversion Narratives at SRS

Posted on 14 December 2011

Members of the Conversion Narratives team will present their research at the forthcoming Society for Renaissance Studies conference in Manchester next year.

Peter Mazur will explore 'The Roman Curia and "Works" of Conversion Under Gregory XIII', exploring the ways in which the Roman curia developed a number of colleges and hospitals designed to effect conversion and present apostasy, whilst Abi Shinn will speak on 'Building Narrative and Finding Faith: the Geographies of Conversion', demonstrating how central movement in time and space is to a range of early modern conversion narratives. They will be joined by Emily Michelson from the University of St Andrews who will give a paper on 'Catholic and Jewish Audiences in the Preaching of Marcellino Evangelista', explaining the remarkable sermons of one conversionary preacher in early modern Rome. Helen Smith will give a related paper on 'Divine Matter: Godly Materialism and the Early Modern Book'. The full SRS programme will be published in the new year.