A new examination of the important theme of conversion in seventeenth-century Spanish drama.

In early modern Spain, theater reached the height of its popularity during the same decades in which Spanish monarchs were striving to consolidate their power.

A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish history Theodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversi

This book explores the cultural conditions that led to the emergence and proliferation of Saint Hermenegildo as a stage character in the sixteenth and seventeen

The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and