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A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New
England This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism
from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan
England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding
critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and
practice in England, Scotland, and New England, David Hall provides
a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the
Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished. Hall's
vivid and wide-ranging narrative describes the movement's deeply
ambiguous triumph under Oliver Cromwell, its political demise with
the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, and its perilous
migration across the Atlantic to establish a "perfect reformation"
in the New World. A breathtaking work of scholarship by an eminent
historian, The Puritans examines the tribulations and doctrinal
dilemmas that led to the fragmentation and eventual decline of
Puritanism. It presents a compelling portrait of a religious and
political movement that was divided virtually from the start. In
England, some wanted to dismantle the Church of England entirely
and others were more cautious, while Puritans in Scotland were
divided between those willing to work with a troublesome king and
others insisting on the independence of the state church. This
monumental book traces how Puritanism was a catalyst for profound
cultural changes in the early modern Atlantic world, opening the
door for other dissenter groups such as the Baptists and the
Quakers, and leaving its enduring mark on what counted as true
religion in America.
A panoramic history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New
England This book is a sweeping transatlantic history of Puritanism
from its emergence out of the religious tumult of Elizabethan
England to its founding role in the story of America. Shedding
critical light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice
in England, Scotland, and New England, David Hall describes the
movement's deeply ambiguous triumph under Oliver Cromwell, its
political demise with the Restoration of the English monarchy in
1660, and its perilous migration across the Atlantic to establish a
"perfect reformation" in the New World. This monumental book traces
how Puritanism was a catalyst for profound cultural changes in the
early modern Atlantic world, opening the door for other dissenter
groups such as the Baptists and the Quakers, and leaving its
enduring mark on religion in America.
Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the
moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of
people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write
letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of
their life work as ministers, dozens to attempt verse, and many
more to narrate a remarkable experience, provide written testimony
to a civil court, participate in a controversy, or keep some sort
of records--and of these everyday forms of writing there was no
limit.Every colonial writer knew of two different modes of
publication, each with its distinctive benefits and limitations.
One was to entrust a manuscript to a printer who would set type and
impose it on sheets of paper that were bound up into a book. The
other was to make handwritten copies or have others make copies,
possibly unauthorized. Among the colonists, the terms "publishing"
and "book" referred to both of these technologies. "Ways of
Writing" is about the making of texts in the seventeenth century,
whether they were fashioned into printed books or circulated in
handwritten form. The latter mode of publishing was remarkably
common, yet it is much less understood or acknowledged than
transmission in print. Indeed, certain writers, including famous
ones such as John Winthrop and William Bradford, employed scribal
publication almost exclusively; the Antimonian controversy of
1636-38 was carried out by this means until manuscripts relating to
the struggle began to be printed in England.Examining printed texts
as well as those that were handwritten, David D. Hall explores the
practices associated with anonymity, dedications, prefaces, errata,
and the like. He also surveys the meaning of authority and
authenticity, demonstrating how so many texts were prepared by
intermediaries, not by authors, thus contributing to the history of
"social" or collaborative authorship. Finally, he considers the
political contexts that affected the transmission and publication
of many texts, revealing that a space for dissent and criticism was
already present in the colonies by the 1640s, a space exploited
mainly by scribally published texts.
Bibliography and the Book Trades Studies in the Print Culture of
Early New England Hugh Amory. Edited by David D. Hall "Amory's work
amounts to an engaging whodunit, recounting the adventures of a
bibliographic sleuth sifting through sparse clues and then deducing
the historically obscured motives behind authorship, audience, and
book-printing and book-selling practices in colonial New
England."--"-Seventeenth-Century News" "These dense essays . . .
challenge almost every received opinion on printing, the world of
books, literary scholarship, and more. Read with care, they offer
us insights and methods of investigation that we ignore at our
peril. Here Hugh Amory sets the highest standards of
excellence."--"Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America" Hugh
Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most
methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early
America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on
the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An
introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and
indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for
each of the essays. Amory used his training as a bibliographer to
reexamine every major question about printing, bookmaking, and
reading in early New England. Who owned Bibles, and in what
formats? Did the colonial book trade consist of books imported from
Europe or of local production? Can we go behind the iconic status
of the Bay Psalm Book to recover its actual history? Was Michael
Wigglesworth's "Day of Doom" really a bestseller? And why did an
Indian gravesite contain a scrap of Psalm 98 in a medicine bundle
buried with a young Pequot girl? In answering these and other
questions, Amory writes broadly about the social and economic
history of printing, bookselling and book ownership. At the heart
of his work is a determination to connect the materialities of
printed books with the workings of the book trades and, in turn,
with how printed books were put to use. This is a collection of
great methodological importance for anyone interested in literature
and history who wants to make those same connections. Hugh Amory
was Senior Rare Book Cataloguer at Houghton Library, Harvard
University. Together with David D. Hall, he was coeditor of "The
Colonial Book in the Atlantic World." David D. Hall is Bartlett
Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School.
He is the author of many books, including "Cultures of Print:
Essays in the History of the Book" and "Worlds of Wonder, Days of
Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England." Material
Texts 2004 184 pages 6 x 9 9 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3837-2 Cloth
$59.95s 39.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0390-5 Ebook $59.95s 39.00 World
Rights American History, Library Science and Publishing Short copy:
A collection of essays from one of the most renowned
bibliographical scholars of our time.
At once historically and theoretically informed, these essays
invite the reader to think of religion dynamically, reconsidering
American religious history in terms of practices that are linked to
specific social contexts. The point of departure is the concept of
"lived religion." Discussing such topics as gift exchange,
cremation, hymn-singing, and women's spirituality, a group of
leading sociologists and historians of religion explore the many
facets of how people carry out their religious beliefs on a daily
basis. As David Hall notes in his introduction, a history of
practices "encompasses the tensions, the ongoing struggle of
definition, that are constituted within every religious tradition
and that are always present in how people choose to act. Practice
thus suggests that any synthesis is provisional."
The volume opens with two essays by Robert Orsi and Daniele
Hervieu-Leger that offer an overview of the rapidly growing study
of lived religion, with Hervieu-Leger using the Catholic
charismatic renewal movement in France as a window through which to
explore the coexistence of regulation and spontaneity within
religious practice. Anne S. Brown and David D. Hall examine family
strategies and church membership in early New England. Leigh Eric
Schmidt looks at the complex meanings of gift-giving in America.
Stephen Prothero writes about the cremation movement in the late
nineteenth century. In an essay on the narrative structure of Mrs.
Cowman's "Streams in the Desert," Cheryl Forbes considers the
devotional lives of everyday women. Michael McNally uses the
practice of hymn-singing among the Ojibwa to reexamine the
categories of native and Christian religion. In essays centering on
domestic life, Rebecca Kneale Gould investigates modern
homesteading as lived religion while R. Marie Griffith treats
home-oriented spirituality in the Women's Aglow Fellowship. In
"Golden- Rule Christianity," Nancy Ammerman talks about lived
religion in the American mainstream."
"Puritans in the New World" tells the story of the powerful yet
turbulent culture of the English people who embarked on an "errand
into the wilderness." It presents the Puritans in their own words,
shedding light on the lives both of great dissenters such as Roger
Williams and Anne Hutchinson and of the orthodox leaders who
contended against them. Classics of Puritan expression, like Mary
Rowlandson's captivity narrative, Anne Bradstreet's poetry, and
William Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" appear alongside texts
that are less well known but no less important: confessions of
religious experience by lay people, the "diabolical" possession of
a young woman, and the testimony of Native Americans who accept
Christianity. Hall's chapter introductions provide a running
history of Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England and alert
readers to important scholarship.
Above all, this is a collection of texts that vividly
illuminates the experience of being a Puritan in the New World. The
book will be welcomed by all those who are interested in early
American literature, religion, and history.
This description of the Americanization of a European institution,
the Puritan ministry as it was transported to the New England
colonies in the seventeenth century, offers a host of new insights
into American religious history. By focusing on such areas as the
ministers' authority, church membership, and ecclesiastical
organization, David D. Hall shows that, although the effects of the
American experience might be considered liberalizing or
democratizing in the first years of settlement, during the entire
course of the seventeenth century the New World environment
produced an institutional development that returned the churches to
forms and doctrines that existed before the emigration from Europe.
"The Faithful Shepherd" not only sustains a bold thesis about
Americanization but also affords the reader one of the freshest and
most comprehensive histories of the seventeenth-century New England
mind and society. This new printing contains a new introduction
reflecting on how our understanding of seventeenth-century New
England has developed since the book was first published.
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In a period characterized by expanding markets, national
consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up
momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth.
Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and
more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers. Volume 4
of A History of the Book in America traces the complex, even
contradictory consequences of these changes in the production,
circulation, and use of print. Contributors to this volume explain
that although mass production encouraged consolidation and
standardization, readers increasingly adapted print to serve their
own purposes, allowing for increased diversity in the midst of
concentration and integration. Considering the book in larger
social and cultural networks, essays address the rise of consumer
culture, the extension of literacy and reading through schooling,
the expansion of secondary and postsecondary education and the
growth of the textbook industry, the growing influence of the
professions and their dependence on print culture, and the history
of relevant technology. As the essays here attest, the expansion of
print culture between 1880 and 1940 enabled it to become part of
Americans' everyday business, social, political, and religious
lives. Contributors: Megan Benton, Pacific Lutheran University Paul
S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Una M. Cadegan,
University of Dayton Phyllis Dain, Columbia University James P.
Danky, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ellen Gruber Garvey, New
Jersey City University Peter Jaszi, American University Carl F.
Kaestle, Brown University Nicolas Kanellos, University of Houston
Richard L. Kaplan, ABC-Clio Publishing Marcel Chotkowski
LaFollette, Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Long, Rice University
Elizabeth McHenry, New York University Sally M. Miller, University
of the Pacific Richard Ohmann, Wesleyan University Janice A.
Radway, Duke University Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester
Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University Charles A. Seavey,
University of Missouri, Columbia Michael Schudson, University of
California, San Diego William Vance Trollinger Jr., University of
Dayton Richard L. Venezky (1938-2004) James L. W. West III,
Pennsylvania State University Wayne A. Wiegand, Florida State
University Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin Martha
Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve University
The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated
stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of
the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run
through the volume: the persisting connections between the book
trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of
intellectual and cultural exchange and the dominance of imported,
chiefly English books; the gradual emergence of a competitive book
trade in which newspapers were the largest form of production; and
the institution of a ""culture of the Word,"" organized around an
essentially theological understanding of print, authorship, and
reading, complemented by other frameworks of meaning that included
the culture of republicanism. ""The Colonial Book in the Atlantic
World"" also traces the histories of literary and learned culture,
censorship and ""freedom of the press,"" and literacy and orality.
How did people in early America understand the authority of print
and how was this authority sustained and contested? These questions
are at the heart of this set of pathbreaking essays in the history
of the book by one of America's leading practitioners in this
interdisciplinary field. David D. Hall examines the interchange
between popular and learned cultures and the practices of reading
and writing. His writings deal with change and continuity,
exploring the possibility of a reading revolution and arguing for
the long duration of a Protestant vernacular tradition. A newly
written essay on book culture in the early Chesapeake describes a
system of scribal publication. The pieces reflect Hall's belief
that the better we understand the production and consumption of
books, the closer we come to a social history of culture.
This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early
New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary
people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring
scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on
earth. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and
resistance: a variety of conflicting beliefs and believers ranging
from the committed core to outright dissenters. He reveals for the
first time the many-layered complexity of colonial religious life,
and the importance within it of traditions derived from those of
the Old World. We see a religion of the laity that was to merge
with the tide of democratic nationalism in the nineteenth century,
and that remains with us today as the essence of Protestant
America.
In this revelatory account of the people who founded the New
England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they
enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the
English Revolution. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary,
unlimited authority, these settlers based their churches on the
participation of laypeople and insisted on "consent" as a premise
of all civil governance. Puritans also transformed civil and
criminal law and the workings of courts with the intention of
establishing equity. In this political and social history of the
five New England colonies, Hall provides a masterful re-evaluation
of the earliest moments of New England's history, revealing the
colonists to be the most effective and daring reformers of their
day.
This superb documentary collection illuminates the history of
witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England.
The cases examined begin in 1638, extend to the Salem outbreak in
1692, and document for the first time the extensive
Stamford-Fairfield, Connecticut, witch-hunt of 1692-1693. Here one
encounters witch-hunts through the eyes of those who participated
in them: the accusers, the victims, the judges. The original texts
tell in vivid detail a multi-dimensional story that conveys not
only the process of witch-hunting but also the complexity of
culture and society in early America. The documents capture
deep-rooted attitudes and expectations and reveal the tensions,
anger, envy, and misfortune that underlay communal life and family
relationships within New England's small towns and villages.
Primary sources include court depositions as well as excerpts from
the diaries and letters of contemporaries. They cover trials for
witchcraft, reports of diabolical possessions, suits of defamation,
and reports of preternatural events. Each section is preceded by
headnotes that describe the case and its background and refer the
reader to important secondary interpretations. In his incisive
introduction, David D. Hall addresses a wide range of important
issues: witchcraft lore, antagonistic social relationships, the
vulnerability of women, religious ideologies, popular and learned
understandings of witchcraft and the devil, and the role of the
legal system. This volume is an extraordinarily significant
resource for the study of gender, village politics, religion, and
popular culture in seventeenth-century New England.
The Antinomian controversy--a seventeenth-century theological
crisis concerning salvation--was the first great intellectual
crisis in the settlement of New England. Transcending the
theological questions from which it arose, this symbolic
controversy became a conflict between power and freedom of
conscience. David D. Hall's thorough documentary history of this
episode sheds important light on religion, society, and gender in
early American history.
This new edition of the 1968 volume, published now for the first
time in paperback, includes an expanding bibliography and a new
preface, treating in more detail the prime figures of Anne
Hutchinson and her chief clerical supporter, John Cotton. Among the
documents gathered here are transcripts of Anne Hutchinson's trial,
several of Cotton's writings defending the Antinomian position, and
John Winthrop's account of the controversy. Hall's increased focus
on Hutchinson reveals the harshness and excesses with which the New
England ministry tried to discredit her and reaffirms her place of
prime importance in the history of American women.
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