Contents -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One Authenticity -- La Confession Catholique du Sieur de Sancy: The Swan Song of the Zealous Protestants -- The Conversion of Christian II of Denmark in Roman Catholic Diplomatic Literature, 1530-1532 -- 'Thy very essence is mutability': Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama, 1558-1642 -- Turning Persia: The Prospect of Conversion in Safavid Iran -- Narrating Conversion and Subjecthood in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands -- Part Two Agency -- 'Most necessarily to be knowne': The Conversion Narratives of Samuel Smith -- Converting England: Mysticism, Nationalism, and Symbolism in the Poetry of John Donne -- Conversion in James Shirley's St Patrick for Ireland (1640) -- Salutary Reading: Conversion and Calvinist Humanism in Constantijn Huygens' Ooghentroost -- Part Three Imitation -- Between Conversion and Apostasy: Moriens's Struggle and the Fate of the Soul -- The Sermons of a Rabbi Converted to Christianity: Between Synagogue and Church -- Parabolic Analogy and Spiritual Discernment in Jéronimo Nadal's Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia of 1595 -- Sight and Insight: Paul as a Model of Conversion in Rhetoricians' Drama -- Rhetorics of the Pulpit -- Index Nominum.