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An Essay For The Recording Of Illustrious Providences
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Book Synopsis An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences by : Increase Mather
Download or read book An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences written by Increase Mather and published by Academic Resources Corp. This book was released on 1977 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providential explanations for "notable happenings" in Puritan history, such as cases of Indian captivity, shipwreck, natural disaster, & diabolic manifestations, possessions, & witchcraft. Essential to an understanding of Puritan society & culture in colonial America. The Essay is also one of America's earliest scientific works. Mather, shortly to become President of Harvard College, discusses magnetism, earthquakes, & medicine, with specific examples drawn from the New England experience, as in other accounts of the period, but differing from them in his "more scientific method, & in the devotion of some space to the exploding of superstition & the treatment of purely scientific subjects" (DAB). The book is still eminently & entirely readable, its vigorous & colloquial prose constantly equal to its extraordinary content.
Book Synopsis An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences by : Increase Mather
Download or read book An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Prose (1607-1865) by : Walter Cochrane Bronson
Download or read book American Prose (1607-1865) written by Walter Cochrane Bronson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences by : Increase Mather
Download or read book An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1685 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Salem Witch Trials Reader by : Frances Hill
Download or read book The Salem Witch Trials Reader written by Frances Hill and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial--examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians--and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook.
Book Synopsis The Devil's Dominion by : Richard Godbeer
Download or read book The Devil's Dominion written by Richard Godbeer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Dominion examines the use of folk magic by ordinary men and women in early New England. The book describes in vivid detail the magical techniques used by settlers and the assumptions which underlaid them. Godbeer argues that layfolk were generally far less consistent in their beliefs and actions than their ministers would have liked; even church members sometimes turned to magic. The Devil's Dominion reveals that the relationship between magical and religious belief was complex and ambivalent: some members of the community rejected magic altogether, but others did not. Godbeer argues that the controversy surrounding astrological prediction in early New England paralleled clerical condemnation of magical practice, and that the different perspectives on witchcraft engendered by magical tradition and Puritan doctrine often caused confusion and disagreement when New Englanders sought legal punishment of witches.
Book Synopsis An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences by : Increase Mather
Download or read book An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures by : Ralph Bauer
Download or read book The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures written by Ralph Bauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Bauer presents a comparative investigation of colonial prose narratives in Spanish and British America from 1542 to 1800. He discusses narratives of shipwreck, captivity, and travel, as well as imperial and natural histories of the New World in the context of transformative early modern scientific ideologies. Bauer positions the narrative models promoted by the 'New Sciences' during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries within the context of the geopolitical question of how knowledge can be centrally controlled in outwardly expanding empires.
Book Synopsis Communities of Journalism by : David Paul Nord
Download or read book Communities of Journalism written by David Paul Nord and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as one of our most insightful commentators on the history of journalism in the United State, David Paul Nord offers a lively and wide-ranging discussion of journalism as a vital component of community. In settings ranging from the religion-infused towns of colonial America to the rrapidly expanding urban metropolises of the late nineteenth century, Nord explores the cultural work of the press.
Book Synopsis Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts by : Carla Gardina Pestana
Download or read book Quakers and Baptists in Colonial Massachusetts written by Carla Gardina Pestana and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative study of the Quaker meeting in Salem and the Baptist church in Boston.
Book Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca by : Rosemary Guiley
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft and Wicca written by Rosemary Guiley and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous editions:"Clearly the best reference work on the subject now available."
Book Synopsis An age of wonders by : William Burns
Download or read book An age of wonders written by William Burns and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monstrous births, rains of blood, apparitions of battles in the sky – people in early modern England found all of these events to carry important religious and political meanings. In An age of wonders, available in paperback for the first time, William E. Burns explores the process by which these events became religiously and politically insignificant in the Restoration period. The story involves the establishment of early modern science, the shift from ‘enthusiastic’ to reasonable religion, and the fierce political combat between the Whigs and the Tories. This historical study is based on close readings of a variety of primary sources, both print and manuscript. Burns claims that prodigies lost their religious meaning and became subjects of scientific enquiry as a result of political struggles, first by the supporters of the restored monarchy and the Church of England against Protestant dissenters, and then by the Whig defenders of the Revolution of 1688 against the Tories and the Jacobites. By integrating religious and political history with the history of science, An age of wonders will be of great use to those working in the field of early modern history.
Book Synopsis Providence in Early Modern England by : Alexandra Walsham
Download or read book Providence in Early Modern England written by Alexandra Walsham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extensive study of the 16th and 17th century belief that God actively intervened in human affairs to punish, reward, warn, try and chastise. It seeks to shed light on the reception, character and broader cultural repercussions of the Reformation.
Book Synopsis American Religion: Religion in the new nation by : David Turley
Download or read book American Religion: Religion in the new nation written by David Turley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set offers a wide range of primary source material spanning several centuries of religious experience in the United States. The material is grouped thematically and chronologically with a critical apparatus which includes a substantial introductory essay giving an overview of the subject, a chronology, and bibliographies.
Book Synopsis A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIV (Forty-Five Volumes); Synopses of Famous Books by : Charles Dudley Warner
Download or read book A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIV (Forty-Five Volumes); Synopses of Famous Books written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had assembled this set, it would still be hailed today as one of the great achievements of the book world. Volume 44 features synopses of notable works-from The Abb Constantin by Ludovic Halvy to Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront-including many not previously referenced in the set but highlighted as well worth a serious reader's time and attention.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society by : Massachusetts Historical Society
Download or read book Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society written by Massachusetts Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Memorial History of Boston by : Justin Winsor
Download or read book The Memorial History of Boston written by Justin Winsor and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
