ABSTRACT
In December 1661, an advertisement appeared in the London weekly news-book, Mercurius Publicus. The ad concerned one Philip Dandulo, 'a Turke borne' who had been 'converted to the true Christian faith' and given the king's patents for his 'Subsistence and releife'. This chapter focuses on the former to propose a typology of "turning" through examining differing types of narrative about three kinds of convert: the 'Turke borne' (Ottoman Muslim) convert to Christianity, the Christian convert to Islam. it describes the "half-turned", that is Christians in lands conquered by the Ottomans who are nominally Muslim but whose faith and practice retain the trappings of Christian culture and community. In the rhetoric of early modern Europe, turning was a natural subject for attention in the press, but it was also a convention of storytelling, news, complaint, satire and theatre.
