Fictions of Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England

The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty—five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the act was overturned by his daughter Mary, only to be reinstated at the ascension of her half—sister Elizabeth. Buffeted by political and confessional cross—currents, the English discovered that conv...