Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF FIGURES vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xvii
5. SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE xix
6. CONTRIBUTORS xxii
7. 1 INTRODUCTION: CONVERSION MACHINES: APPARATUS, ARTIFICE, BODY 1
8. 2 THE CONVERSIONAL POLITICS OF COMPLIANCE: OATHS AND AUTONOMY IN HENRICIAN ENGLAND 27
9. 3 THE SEPULCHRE GROUP: A SITE OF ARTISTIC, RELIGIOUS, AND CULTURAL CONVERSION 45
10. 4 STONY BUNDLES AND PRECIOUS WRAPPINGS: THE MAKING OF PATIO CROSSES IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY NEW SPAIN 76
11. 5 THE CONVERSION OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM AS A FORM OF COLONISATION IN VICEREGAL MEXICO 110
12. 6 MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL CONVERSIONS: JACOPO LIGOZZI AND THE DESCRIZIONE DEL SACRO MONTE DELLA VERNIA (1612) 127
13. 7 ‘HAERETICI TYPUS, ET DESCRIPTIO’: HERETICAL AND ANTI-HERETICAL IMAGE-MAKING IN JAN DAVID, SJ’S VERIDICUS CHRISTIANUS 167
14. 8 DISORIENTATION AS A CONVERSION MACHINE IN THE ISLAND OF HERMAPHRODITES (1605) 187
15. 9 DYNAMIC CONVERSIONS: GRIEF AND JOY IN GEORGE HERBERT’S MUSICAL VERSE 215
16. 10 THEATRES OF MACHINES AND THEATRES OF CRUELTY: INSTRUMENTS OF CONVERSION ON THE EARLY MODERN STAGE 241
17. 11 BODY OR SOUL: PROVING YOUR RELIGION IN THE EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN 274
18. 12 WHAT MACHINES CANNOT DO: A LEIBNIZIAN ANIMADVERSION 305
19. 13 HUMAN CONVERSION MACHINES: HAMLET AND OTHERS 326
20. INDEX 348