Conversio im Zeitalter von Reformation und Konfessionalisierung : Écrit de conversion als neue literarische Form

»Conversio in the Age of Reformation and Confessionalization. Écrit de Conversion as a New Literary Form« People who changed their religious community in the 16th and especially the 17th century, where - if they did not write about it of their own volition - often asked by church authorities to write down their motives and experience with this change. These écrits de conversion are analyzed in this study regarding their structural, stylistic and contextual characteristics and they are therefore defined as a new literary form.