The Turn of the Soul Intersections Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture
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The Turn of the Soul Intersections Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture General Editor Karl A.E. Enenkel Chair of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster e-mail: kenen_01@uni_muenster.de Editorial Board W. van Anrooij (University of Leiden) W. de Boer (Miami University) K.A.E. Enenkel (University of Münster) J.L. de Jong (University of Groningen) W.S. Melion (Emory University) K. Murphy (University of Oxford) W. Neuber (Free University of Berlin) H. Roodenburg (P.J. Meertens Institute) P.J. Smith (University of Leiden) A. Traninger (Free University of Berlin) C. Zittel (Free University of Berlin) Advisory Board K. VAN BERKEL (University of Groningen) – F. EGMOND (Rome) A. GRAFTON (Princeton University) – A. HAMILTON (Warburg Institute) C.L. HEESAKKERS – H.A. HENDRIX (Utrecht University) – F.J. VAN INGEN J.I. ISRAEL (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J.) – M. JACOBS (Free University of Brussels) K.A. OTTENHEYM (Utrecht University) – K. PORTEMAN E.J. SLUIJTER (University of Amsterdam) VOLUME 23 – 2012 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.nl/inte The Turn of the Soul Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature Edited by Lieke Stelling Harald Hendrix Todd M. Richardson LEIDEN • BOSTON 2012 Cover illustration: Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Conversion of Saul (ca. 1542–1545), (detail). Fresco, Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, Vatican City. Image © Scala / Art Resource, New York. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The turn of the soul : representations of religious conversion in early modern art and literature / edited by Lieke Stelling, Harald Hendrix, Todd M. Richardson. p. cm. — (Intersections ; 23) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-21856-7 (hardback : acid-free paper) 1. Conversion in literature. 2. Conversion in art. 3. Literature, European—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. I. Stelling, Lieke. II. Hendrix, Harald. III. Richardson, Todd M. PN49.T74 2012 809’.933824824—dc23 2011044848 ISSN 1568-1811 ISBN 978 90 04 21856 7 (hardback) ISBN 978 90 04 22637 1 (e-book) Copyright 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. CONTENTS Notes on the Editors ......................................................................... vii Notes on the Contributors ............................................................... ix List of Illustrations ............................................................................ xiii Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 Lieke Stelling and Todd M. Richardson PART ONE – AUTHENTICITY La Confession Catholique du Sieur de Sancy: The Swan Song of the Zealous Protestants ............................................................ 21 Mathilde Bernard The Conversion of Christian II of Denmark in Roman Catholic Diplomatic Literature, 1530–1532 .............................. 39 Federico Zuliani ‘Thy very essence is mutability’: Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama, 1558–1642 ................................ 59 Lieke Stelling Turning Persia: The Prospect of Conversion in Safavid Iran .... 85 Chloë Houston Narrating Conversion and Subjecthood in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands ................................................. 109 E. Natalie Rothman PART TWO – AGENCY ‘Most necessarily to be knowne’: The Conversion Narratives of Samuel Smith ............................................................................ 153 Philip Major vi contents Converting England: Mysticism, Nationalism, and Symbolism in the Poetry of John Donne ....................................................... 177 Jayme M. Yeo Conversion in James Shirley’s St Patrick for Ireland (1640) ...... 199 Alison Searle Salutary Reading: Conversion and Calvinist Humanism in Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost ........................................... 225 Lise Gosseye PART THREE – IMITATION Between Conversion and Apostasy: Moriens’s Struggle and the Fate of the Soul ............................................................... 249 John R. Decker The Sermons of a Rabbi Converted to Christianity: Between Synagogue and Church ................................................................ 281 Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi Parabolic Analogy and Spiritual Discernment in Jéronimo Nadal’s Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia of 1595 .... 299 Walter S. Melion Sight and Insight: Paul as a Model of Conversion in Rhetoricians’ Drama ..................................................................... 339 Bart Ramakers Rhetorics of the Pulpit ...................................................................... 373 Xander van Eck Index Nominum ................................................................................ 393 NOTES ON THE EDITORS Lieke Stelling is a junior researcher at the University of Leiden. Her PhD thesis, which focuses on representations of religious conver- sion in early modern English drama, will be completed in the course of 2012. She has published essays on the work of Shakespeare and Massinger; an article on the Nachleben of St. Augustine’s conversion is due to appear in 2012. Harald Hendrix, PhD (1993) in Italian Studies, University of Amsterdam, is full professor and chair of Italian Studies and head of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Utrecht. He has published widely on the European reception of Italian Renais- sance and Baroque culture, on the early modern aesthetics of the non-beautiful as well as on literary culture and memory. Amongst his recent publications is the edited volume Writers’ Houses and the Making of Memory (2007). Todd M. Richardson, PhD (2007) in Art History, University of Leiden, is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Mem- phis. He is the author of Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Art Discourse in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands (2011) and the co-editor of two vol- umes: The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Art (2011) and Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2008). NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Mathilde Bernard obtained her PhD in French Literature from the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. She is the author of Écrire la peur au temps des guerres de Religion. Une étude des historiens et mémorialistes contemporains des guerres de Religion en France (1562– 1598) (Paris: 2010), and has published several articles on religion in early modern France. John R. Decker is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia and is a specialist in fifteenth- century Dutch religious painting. He has published on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Dutch art with a focus on lay piety, devotional the- ory and practice, and the fashioning of social and religious identities. His monograph, The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Ashgate: 2009), explores the role of image in the complex system of Christian salvation in the early modern period. Xander van Eck is Associate Professor of Art History at Izmir Uni- versity of Economics. His research focuses on the patronage of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands in the early modern period. His publications include The Stained-glass Windows in the Sint Janskerk at Gouda: The works of Dirck and Wouter Crabeth, Corpus Vitrearum The Netherlands, vol. II (Amsterdam: 2002) andClandestine Splen- dor. Paintings for the Protestant Church in the Dutch Republic (Zwolle: 2008). Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi is affiliated to the Scuola Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy. She has published several articles on Renais- sance Humanism and Italian Jewish History. She is currently prepar- ing a book on the Accademia Pontaniana as a model of a humanist network. Lise Gosseye works at the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University. Her research interests include Dutch literature, early mod- ern literature and literary theory. Her dissertation, entitled Reading x notes on the contributors towards the Light. Constantijn Huygens’ Ooghentroost at the Begin- nings of Modernity, explores the intertextual position of Ooghentroost as it relates to Hans Blumenberg’s conception of modernity. Chloë Houston is lecturer in Early Modern Drama in the Depart- ment of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. She is interested in early modern literature and history, and especially utopias and travel writing. She is the editor of New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period (Ashgate: 2010), and her new project is a book on Persia and Islam in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. Philip Major is lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Ghent. He has published widely on seventeenth-century literature,