Conversion Machines

Examines how mechanisms of change and conversions harrowed and transformed early modern people and their worlds Brings forward the history of made things and the history of practices as a new way of understanding the social and political dimensions of early modern conversion (mostly religious conversion but also bodily, sexual, and machine-to-human kinds of transformation)Engenders a multidisciplinary approach to conversion as a process of change – including history, art and architectural histor