Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Lettres Édifiantes Et Curieuses, Écrites Des Missions Étrangères: Mémoires d'Amérique
Author: Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta
Author: Eusebio Francisco KinoPublisher:
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Category : Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Allegories of Encounter
Author: Andrew NewmanPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469643464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books. In this way and others, Scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of one's own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations.
Becoming Holy in Early Canada
Author: Timothy G. PearsonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773596461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in holy figures in Canada. From the reputations of popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI as prolific saint-makers to the canonization of two figures associated with Canada - Brother André Bessette in 2010 and Kateri Tekakwitha in 2012 - saints are suddenly in the news and a topic of conversation. In Becoming Holy in Early Canada, Timothy Pearson explores the roots of sanctity in Canada to discover why reputations for holiness developed in the early colonial period and how saints were made in the local and immediate contexts of everyday life. Pearson weaves together the histories of well-known figures such as Marie de l'Incarnation with those of largely forgotten local saints such as lay brother and carpenter Didace Pelletier and the Algonquin martyr Joseph Onaharé. Adopting an approach that draws on performance theory, ritual studies, and lived religion, he unravels the expectations, interactions, and negotiations that constituted holy performances. Because holy reputations developed over the course of individuals' lifetimes and in after-death relationships with local faith communities through belief in miracles, holy lives are best read as local, embedded, and contextualized histories. Placing colonial holy figures between the poles of local expectation and the universal Catholic theology of sanctity, Becoming Holy in Early Canada shows how reputations developed and individuals became local saints long before they came to the attention of the church in Rome.
The Discovery of New Mexico by the Franciscan Monk Friar Marcos de Niza in 1539
Author: Adolph F. BandelierPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816545936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The story of Fray Marcos and the Seven Cities of Cíbola was a favorite of Adolph Bandelier (1840–1914). Bandelier’s combination of methodological sophistication and control of the archival data makes the Marcos de Niza paper important, not only as a landmark in Southwestern ethnohistory, but as a work of scholarship in its own rights, with insights on Cabeza de Vaca, Marcos, and early Southwestern exploration that are still valid today.
Catalog
Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Catalog. Supplement, Oct. 1, 1906
Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Catalogue of Accessions to the Legislative Library of the Province of Ontario During the Years
Author: Ontario. Legislative LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Catalogue of Accessions to the Legislative Library of the Province of Ontario During the Years 1913, 1914 and 1915
Author: Ontario. Legislative LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the New York Society Library
Author: New York Society LibraryPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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