The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader

Author : Patrick Erben,Alfred Brophy,Margo Lambert
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780271083889

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The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader by Patrick Erben,Alfred Brophy,Margo Lambert Pdf

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.

Author : Patrick Erben,Alfred Brophy,Margo Lambert
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 027108328X

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The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader by Patrick Erben,Alfred Brophy,Margo Lambert Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the writings of Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, lawyer, educator, and early modern polymath. Includes many of Pastorius's unpublished manuscripts as well as new translations of German-language tracts printed in his lifetime.

Author : Marion Dexter Learned,Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0341775320

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The Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the Founder of Germantown by Marion Dexter Learned,Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Marion Dexter Learned
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1528163052

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The Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the Founder of Germantown by Marion Dexter Learned Pdf

Excerpt from The Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the Founder of Germantown: Illustrated With Ninety Photographic Reproductions This is a documentary life of Francis Daniel Pastorius and his times. It is the result of long and patient research in original sources in the Archives of Europe and America, and presents much new matter hitherto unpublished. The author has spared no cost and pains in gaining access to the original documents and other sources, many of which are indicated by the photographic reproductions. The work is written in a style which, it is hoped, will prove readable, but at the same time keep the reader in touch with the sources. No statement has been made in the work without refer ence to a reliable source. The genealogist and critical reader will find in the footnotes the original authorities for the statements made in the text, and the reader unfamiliar with German and Latin will find the essential facts stated or translated in the Eng lish text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Nicole A. Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000264173

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Bees in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature by Nicole A. Jacobs Pdf

This book examines apian imagery—bees, drones, honey, and the hive—in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and oral traditions. In England and the New World colonies during a critical period of expansion, the metaphor of this communal society faced unprecedented challenges even as it came to emblematize the process of colonization itself. The beehive connected the labor of those marginalized by race, class, gender, or species to larger considerations of sovereignty. This study examines the works of William Shakespeare; Francis Daniel Pastorius; Hopi, Wyandotte, and Pocasset cultures; John Milton; Hester Pulter; and Bernard Mandeville. Its contribution lies in its exploration of the simultaneously recuperative and destructive narratives that place the bee at the nexus of the human, the animal, and the environment. The book argues that bees play a central representational and physical role in shaping conflicts over hierarchies of the early transatlantic world.

Author : Jan Stievermann,Oliver Scheiding
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271063003

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A Peculiar Mixture by Jan Stievermann,Oliver Scheiding Pdf

Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America’s emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled “web of contact zones.” They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a “peculiar mixture” of Old World practices and New World influences. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674245655

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Inky Fingers by Anthony Grafton Pdf

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year “Grafton presents largely unfamiliar material...in a clear, even breezy style...Erudite.” —Michael Dirda, Washington Post In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, Anthony Grafton captures both the physical and mental labors that went into the golden age of the book—compiling notebooks, copying and correcting proofs, preparing copy—and shows us how scribes and scholars shaped influential treatises and forgeries. Inky Fingers ranges widely, from the theological polemics of the early days of printing to the pathbreaking works of Jean Mabillon and Baruch Spinoza. Grafton draws new connections between humanistic traditions and intellectual innovations, textual learning and the delicate, arduous, error-riddled craft of making books. Through it all, he reminds us that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands, and the nitty gritty labor of printmakers has had a profound impact on the history of ideas. “Describes magnificent achievements, storms of controversy, and sometimes the pure devilment of scholars and printers...Captivating and often amusing.” —Wall Street Journal “Ideas, in this vivid telling, emerge not just from minds but from hands, not to mention the biceps that crank a press or heft a ream of paper.” —New York Review of Books “Grafton upends idealized understandings of early modern scholarship and blurs distinctions between the physical and mental labor that made the remarkable works of this period possible.” —Christine Jacobson, Book Post “Scholarship is a kind of heroism in Grafton’s account, his nine protagonists’ aching backs and tired eyes evidence of their valiant dedication to the pursuit of knowledge.” —London Review of Books

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674237179

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Inky Fingers by Anthony Grafton Pdf

The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book. From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as diligent workers. Meticulously illuminating the physical and mental labors that fostered the golden age of the book—the compiling of notebooks, copying and correction of texts and proofs, preparation of copy—he shows us how the exertions of scholars shaped influential books, treatises, and forgeries. Inky Fingers ranges widely, tracing the transformation of humanistic approaches to texts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and examining the simultaneously sustaining and constraining effects of theological polemics on sixteenth-century scholars. Grafton draws new connections between humanistic traditions and intellectual innovations, textual learning and craft knowledge, manuscript and print. Above all, Grafton makes clear that the nitty-gritty of bookmaking has had a profound impact on the history of ideas—that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands.

Author : Patrick Michael Erben
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language and culture
ISBN : 9780807835579

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Harmony of the Spirits by Patrick Michael Erben Pdf

Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania

Author : Bethany Wiggin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271084008

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Babel of the Atlantic by Bethany Wiggin Pdf

Despite shifting trends in the study of Oceanic Atlantic history, the colonial Atlantic world as it is described by historians today continues to be a largely English-only space; even when other language communities are examined, they, too, are considered to be monolingual and discrete. Babel of the Atlantic pushes back against this monolingual fallacy by documenting multilingualism, translation, and fluid movement across linguistic borders. Focusing on Philadelphia and surrounding areas that include Germantown, Bethlehem, and the so-called Indian country to the west, this volume demonstrates the importance of viewing inhabitants not as members of isolated language communities, whether English, German, Lenape, Mohican, or others, but as creators of a vibrant zone of mixed languages and shifting politics. Organized around four themes—religion, education, race and abolitionism, and material culture and architecture—and drawing from archives such as almanacs, newspapers, and the material world, the chapters in this volume show how polyglot, tolerant, and multilingual spaces encouraged diverse peoples to coexist. Contributors examine subjects such as the multicultural Moravian communities in colonial Pennsylvania, the Charity School movement of the 1750s, and the activities of Quaker abolitionists, showing how educational and religious movements addressed and embraced cultural and linguistic variety. Drawing early American scholarship beyond the normative narrative of monolingualism, this volume will be invaluable to historians and sociolinguists whose work focuses on Pennsylvania and colonial, revolutionary, and antebellum America. In addition to the editor, the contributors include Craig Atwood, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Katherine Faull, Wolfgang Flügel, Katharine Gerbner, Maruice Jackson, Lisa Minardi, Jürgen Overhoff, and Birte Pfleger.

Author : TIMOTHY. GRIEVE-CARLSON,Assistant Professor of Religion & Interfaith Studies Timothy Grieve-Carlson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197765562

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American Aurora by TIMOTHY. GRIEVE-CARLSON,Assistant Professor of Religion & Interfaith Studies Timothy Grieve-Carlson Pdf

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential but comprehensively misunderstood theologian who settled outside of Philadelphia from 1604 to 1707, Timothy Grieve-Carlson explores the Hermetic and alchemical dimensions of Kelpius's Christianity before turning to his legacy in American religion and literature. This engaging analysis showcases Kelpius's forgotten theological intricacies, spiritual revelations, and cosmic observations, illuminating the complexity and foresight of an important colonial mystic. As radical Protestants during Kelpius's lifetime struggled to understand their changing climate and a seemingly eschatological cosmos, esoteric texts became crucial sources of meaning. Grieve-Carlson presents original translations of Kelpius's university writings, which have never been published in English, along with analyses and translations of other important sources from the period in German and Latin. Ultimately, American Aurora points toward a time and place when climate change caused an eruption of esoteric thought and practice-and how this moment has been largely forgotten.

Author : Mark Towsey,Kyle B. Roberts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004348677

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Before the Public Library by Mark Towsey,Kyle B. Roberts Pdf

Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.

Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : American poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HWK6QB

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The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Other Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Pdf

Author : Harrison T. Meserole
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271038100

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American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century by Harrison T. Meserole Pdf

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0674307607

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The Footnote by Anthony Grafton Pdf

In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.