Evangelic Provocation: Location of Anger in Medieval Conversion Narratives
Jehangir Yezdi Malegam
This article explores the range of cultural scripts made available to medieval hagiographers when they depicted anger in accounts mission and conversion. The focus is communities with prominent “lapsed” Christians, who then become targets re-conversion. By reconstructing templates emotional change redemption associated these narratives, we are better able see how reconciled extended, politicized violent Christianization processes sudden, dramatic conversions. use can also be located immediate circumstances longstanding communal pressures monastic that produced conversion narratives.
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