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Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A Light shining out of Darkness: or, occasional queries submitted to the judgment of such as would inquire into the true State of Things in our Times. By Sir H. Vane?
Author: A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends' Books
Author: Joseph SmithPublisher:
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Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader
Author: Patrick ErbenPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271083867
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Francis Daniel Pastorius was one of the first German settlers to Pennsylvania and a touchstone figure of German-American cultural heritage. This monumental anthology presents a selection of his many writings in one volume. Pastorius sailed to North America as a Pietist but found a unique home among the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Within this early modern religious context, he was a lawyer, educator, and community leader; a polymath; and a prolific writer and collector of knowledge. At the turn of the eighteenth century, Pastorius held one of the largest manuscript collections in North America and wrote voluminously in multiple languages. His collecting, curation, and dissemination represents a unique look at the ways information was stored, processed, and utilized during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in both North America and Europe. This rich selection of Pastorius’s writings on religion, education, gardening, law and community, and the colony of Pennsylvania—as well as letters, poems, and numerous encyclopedic and bibliographic works—shows the mind of a true humanist in action. Pastorius’s works have long been important to the archival study of early German settlement and the Atlantic world. Now available together, transcribed, translated, and annotated, his writings will have widespread significance to the study of early American literature and history.
The Correspondence
Author: Thomas HobbesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198237488
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important figures in the history of European thought. Although interest in his life and work has grown enormously in recent years, this is the first complete edition of his correspondence. The texts of the letters are richly supplemented with explanatory notes and full biographical and bibliographical information. This landmark publication sheds new light on the intellectual life of a major thinker.
A Catalogue of Twenty-five Thousand Volumes of Choice, Useful, and Curious Books
Author: John Russell SmithPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375097018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Catalogue of the Books and Pamphlets in the Library of Columbia College
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368824406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Catalogue of the Books and Pamphlets in the Library of Columbia College, New York
Author: Columbia College (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Secular Chains
Author: Philip ConnellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019107831X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual authority were variously challenged and transformed. This study reveals the importance of English literary culture for our understanding of this process, and throws new light on the dynamics of change and continuity between the puritan revolution and the early Enlightenment. Based on extensive research in both printed and manuscript sources, the book combines detailed case studies of major literary figures with a sustained historical narrative linking the republican moment of the 1650s, the conflicts and crises of the Restoration, and the ecclesiastical politics of the early eighteenth century. Milton and Dryden provide the principal focus of the first three chapters, which explore the divisive issue of church settlement in the work of both writers, together with the increasingly prominent rhetoric of anti-clericalism and irreligion in the poetry and polemics of the later seventeenth century. Subsequent chapters extend the book's argument to the embattled condition of the Church of England in the decades after 1688, and the significant contribution of contemporary literary culture to a range of religious and philosophical argument, from heterodox free-thinking to Newtonian natural theology. Secular Chains demonstrates the close and continued relationship between poetry and religious politics in the age of Milton and Pope, and provides a new framework for understanding this complex and turbulent period in English literary history.
Book Catalogue
Author: John Russell SmithPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Milton and the Puritan Dilemma, 1641-1660
Author: Arthur E. BarkerPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442633271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
This analysis of the progressive definition of John Milton’s social, political, and religious opinions during the fertile years of the Puritan Revolution has become a classic work of scholarship in the thirty-five years since it was first published. Professor Barker interprets Milton’s development in the light of his personal problems and of the changing climate of opinion among his revolutionary associates.
