Space and Conversion in Global Perspective

Giuseppe Marcocci, Ph.D. (2008), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is Assistant Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Tuscia. He has published widely on the Portuguese world, including L’invenzione di un impero: Politica e cultura nel mondo portoghese, 1450-1600 (Carocci, 2011).Wietse de Boer, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of History at Miami University (Ohio). His publications are focused on the Italian Counter-Reformation, most recently Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe (Intersections 26, 2013), co-edited with Christine Göttler.Aliocha Maldavsky, Ph.D. (2000), is Assistant Professor at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. She has published Vocaciones inciertas. Misión y misioneros en la provincia jesuita del Perú en los siglos XVI y XVII (CSIC-IFEA-Universidad Ruiz de Montoya, 2012). Ilaria Pavan, Ph.D. (2003), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is Assistant Professor of Late Modern History. She has published monographs, and many articles on Italian Jewish History in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on the Editors Notes on the ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Space, Conversion, and Global HistoryGIUSEPPE MARCOCCI, WIETSE DE BOER, ALIOCHA MALDAVSKY, ILARIA PAVANPART ONE: CITY AND COUNTRYGranada as a New Jerusalem: The Conversion of a CityMERCEDES GARCÍA-ARENAL Conversion on the Scaffold: Italian Practices in European ContextADRIANO PROSPERIThe Incas of Cuzco and the Transformation of Sacred Space under Spanish Colonial RuleGABRIELA RAMOSThe Spread of Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century Palestinian VillagesFELICITA TRAMONTANAChristian Missionaries and Jewish Spaces: British Missions in the Kingdom of Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth CenturyAGNIESZKA JAGODZIŃSKA PART TWO: SEGREGATION AND PERMEABILITYThe Citadel of the Lost Souls: Spaces of Orthodoxy and Penance in Sixteenth-Century LisbonSUSANA BASTOS MATEUSThe Hospital as a Space of Conversion: Roman Examples from the Seventeenth CenturyIRENE FOSIThe Political Dimension of Space-Time Categories in the Jesuit Missions of Paraguay (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries)GUILLERMO WILDEThe Social and Physical Spaces of the Malabar Rites ControversyPAOLO ARANHA PART THREE: DISTANCE AND MOBILITYSaltwater Conversion: Trans-Oceanic Sailing and Religious Transformation in the Iberian WorldGIUSEPPE MARCOCCIGiving for the Mission: The encomenderos and Christian Space in the Late Sixteenth-Century AndesALIOCHA MALDAVSKYTelling the Untellable: The Geography of Conversion of a Muslim JesuitEMANUELE COLOMBO AND ROCCO SACCONAGHIConfessional Rivals: Conversions and Apostasies in the Middle-Volga Region of the Russian Empire (Nineteenth Century)OXANA ZEMTSOVA Index

"The editors are to be congratulated for bringing together a truly global range of perspectives and insights to stimulate what is still a new and vital field." – Simon Ditchfield, University of York, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 2/3 (2015), pp. 493-499 [DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00203005-07]