"Greatly enriches our knowledge of Spanish Florida. . . . Describes
the sixteenth-century Native American and European occupants of St.
Augustine, the circumstances which brought them together, and the
city, fortifications, and houses in which they dwelt. Nothing else
like this has been written. . . . Enlarges substantially upon the
cultural meaning of people, place, and hearth."--Eugene Lyon,
director, Center for Historic Research, Flagler College, St.
Augustine "[The] first and only comprehensive historical and
anthropological synthesis of America's first European colony . . .
and a great story. There are very few scholars who can achieve this
kind of precisely accurate, broadly synthetic, and wonderfully
readable book."--Kathleen Deagan, curator of anthropology, Florida
Museum of Natural History, Gainesville In this companion volume to
TheHouses of St. Augustine, 1565 to 1821, Albert Manucy goes back
in time to detail the first years of St. Augustine's settlement,
from 1565 to 1700. Focusing on how the first Spanish colonists
lived, Manucy describes the buildings and backyards of the early
settlers and illustrates how the architecture of the Timucua
Indians of Florida influenced Spanish colonial culture. Though the
description of early St. Augustine is necessarily hypothetical,
since all of the early structures were burned by Sir Thomas Moore
in 1702, Manucy incorporates a broad range of scholarship in
architecture, art, history, and ethnohistory to establish a
provocative, convincing, and fascinating model of early colonial
life. For years the leading architectural interpreter of St.
Augustine and formerly a historian of the Castillo de San Marcos, a
Fulbright scholar in Spain, and a member of the St. Augustine 1580
research team, Albert Manucy combines his expertise with a true
gift for story telling. Richly illustrated and straightforwardly
narrated, Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine will appeal to anyone
interested in Florida history, particularly in the early Spanish
settlers of St. Augustine and the Timucuan Indians. It will also
prove an invaluable resource for archaeologists, architects,
enthnohistorians, museum curators, and scholars of Spanish colonial
history.
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