This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there i

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of ordinary women and men experienced evangelical conversion and turned to a certain form of spiritual au

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

Conversions is the first collection to explicitly address the intersections between sexed identity and religious change in the two centuries following the Refor

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