Jouve Martín, José R., and Stephen Wittek, eds. Performing Conversions: Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformations

This second installment of the press's Conversions series emerged from the Early Modern Conversions project, which culminated in 2019 (earlymodernconversions.com/).Its principal investigator, Paul Yachnin, is also the series co-editor, along with Bronwen Wilson.They co-sign a preface that situates Performing Conversions in relation to the wide-ranging research collaboration based at McGill University, which contemplated the period from 1400 to 1700 as the first global Age of Conversion.In keeping with this framework, Jouve Martín and Wittek structure their volume as an itinerary through a selection of cities-Lima, London, Venice, Madrid, Amsterdam, three in the Swiss Confederacy, and Mexico.They proffer the sampling as a "brisk, meandering tour of select sites that collectively make important, underlying trends easier to see" ( 9).As a conceptual road map, the introduction, "Conversion, Cities and Theatre in the Early Modern World, " notes that "the question at the core of Performing Conversion concerns the ability of theatre to model, interrogate, inspire, condition and constitute conversional experience within the special representational space of the stage" (3).Each chapter has a thematic title, presumably from the contributing author.In parallel, the editors added running page headings that identify each contribution with reference to the city under scrutiny.In chapter 1, "Venice: The Converted City, " Iaian Fenlon ponders conversion in the broad socio-cultural context of this metropolis.Fenlon demonstrates how theatrical public displays of civic piety in the later sixteenth century reified the "Myth of Venice, " long construed in terms of the city's selfconception as an independent republic led by benevolent patricians for the benefit of all its citizens.The myth's new iteration took shape through such dramas as processions and festivities, which portrayed this fiercely commercial metropolis as a conversion-oriented "City of God" (28).In chapter 2, "Turnings: Motion and Emotion in the Labyrinths of Early Modern Amsterdam, " Angela Vanhaelen provides the most resolutely secular exploration of conversion in the volume, walking readers through the

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