Title
3.51 C The Path of St. Peter: Religious Conversion in 16th-Century Italy poster
Subject(s)
History
Faculty
Research, Presentation of
Description
A poster promoting a Scholarship Matters faculty presentation by Dr. Rob Pierce.
Date
November 7, 2013
Creator(s)
The College of Arts & Humanities
Call Number
3.51 C
Statement of Rights
Christopher Newport University, All Rights Reserved
Text
Dr. Rob Pierce is a lecturer in the Department of History at Christopher Newport University. he received his BA in English language and literature from the University of Virginia in 1982 and his PhD in history from the University of Virginia in 1996. he is a scholar of the social and religious history of Italy in the late Middle Ages. His scholarship has focused on the channels of transmission of religious ideas, conversion, ad the influence of printing on religious belief. Dr. Pierce also teaches in CNU's MAT program, is active in international K-12 education, and specialized in developing international and global perspectives in social studies and on fostering creativitiy through school environments and instructional strategies.
Though St. Paul's instantaneous and transformational "blinding light" experience dominates Western imagination about conversion, in 16th-century Italy motives for changing religions varied. Decisions to convert occurred gradually and actual "conversions" were often mere stages in people's lives. Sixteenth-century Italians walked not the road to Damascus but rather the slow and troubled path of St. Peter.
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