Author: Franklin Bowditch DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Early Private Libraries in New England
Author: Franklin Bowditch DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Private Libraries in Renaissance England
Author: Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England
Author: Ann Marie PlanePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812290542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
From angels to demonic specters, astonishing visions to devilish terrors, dreams inspired, challenged, and soothed the men and women of seventeenth-century New England. English colonists considered dreams to be fraught messages sent by nature, God, or the Devil; Indians of the region often welcomed dreams as events of tremendous significance. Whether the inspirational vision of an Indian sachem or the nightmare of a Boston magistrate, dreams were treated with respect and care by individuals and their communities. Dreams offered entry to "invisible worlds" that contained vital knowledge not accessible by other means and were viewed as an important source of guidance in the face of war, displacement, shifts in religious thought, and intercultural conflict. Using firsthand accounts of dreams as well as evolving social interpretations of them, Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England explores these little-known aspects of colonial life as a key part of intercultural contact. With themes touching on race, gender, emotions, and interior life, this book reveals the nighttime visions of both colonists and Indians. Ann Marie Plane examines beliefs about faith, providence, power, and the unpredictability of daily life to interpret both the dreams themselves and the act of dream reporting. Through keen analysis of the spiritual and cosmological elements of the early modern world, Plane fills in a critical dimension of the emotional and psychological experience of colonialism.
Bowing to Necessities
Author: C. Dallett HemphillPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195154088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
The Puritans
Author: Perry MillerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486161056
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Critically acclaimed compilation includes writings by William Bradford, Increase Mather, William Hubbard, Anne Bradstreet, and other influential figures. "The best selection ever made of Puritan literature." — historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
Catalogue of the Library of Wilberforce Eames ...
Author: Wilberforce EamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Young Woman and the Sea
Author: Glenn StoutPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618858687
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
THE PERFECT MILE meet SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA in this compelling tale of how nineteen-year-old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel.
Medieval Manuscripts and Their Provenance
Author: A S G EdwardsPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184384723X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Essays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts. The essays collected here celebrate the work of Barbara Shailor, the distinguished scholar of medieval manuscripts. They explore various aspects of their provenance. The subjects addressed range from studies of the history of individual manuscripts, to the evidence afforded by the understanding of their textual traditions, to the significance of the identification of fragments, to the roles of individual scholars and collectors. As a whole the volume contributes to a wider understanding of how the history and ownership of medieval manuscripts can be fruitfully examined, a flourishing area of interest in the field.
Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late John K. Wiggin
Author: John Kimball WigginPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Source Book and Bibliographical Guide for American Church History
Author: Peter George ModePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description