Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony

2000 History

Author : Edward L. Bond
Release : 2000
Genre : History
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Download or read book Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony written by Edward L. Bond. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this study, historian Edward L. Bond provides an inside view of religion in America's first colony. Focusing or religion as various expressions of individual and corporate relationship with the divine, the author gives the reader a picture of religion and society in colonial Virginia. In the process, he clarifies our understandings of Virginia's established Anglican Church, discusses the theology and devotional practices of the colonists, and explains the role of religion in colonial polity. Such an approach allows the reader to see both the conservative and progressive elements in the way the earliest colonists in Virginia defined their individual and corporate relationship with God." "Throughout Bond's analysis, he shows that by the end of the seventeenth century Virginians, though viewing themselves as Anglicans, nonetheless gradually discovered that they were defending an ecclesiastical institution much different from the one they left behind in England."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia

2004 History

Author : Edward L. Bond
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Download or read book Spreading the Gospel in Colonial Virginia written by Edward L. Bond. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compilation of previously unpublished and largely unexamined sermons, Bond shapes a picture of colonial Virginia's religious environment that is unparalleled in both its depth and scope. His commentary vastly enriches our appreciation not only of the texts, but also of their writers and the important role these clergymen played in shaping the young nation.

Statute Law in Colonial Virginia

2021-02-22 Law

Author : Warren M. Billings
Release : 2021-02-22
Genre : Law
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Download or read book Statute Law in Colonial Virginia written by Warren M. Billings. This book was released on 2021-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1632 and 1748, Virginia’s General Assembly revised the colony’s statutes seven times. These revisals provide an invaluable opportunity to gauge how governors, councilors, and burgesses created a hybrid body of colonial statute law that would become the longest strand in the American legal fabric. In Statute Law in Colonial Virginia, Warren Billings presents a series of snapshots that depict the seven revisions of the corpus juris the General Assembly undertook. In so doing, he highlights the good, the corrupt, and the loathsome applications of broad legislative authority throughout the colonial era. Each revision was built on prior written law and embodies the members’ legal knowledge and statutory craftsmanship, revealing their use of an unbridled discretion to further the interests they represented. Statutes undergirded Virginia’s evolving legal culture, and by examining these revisals and their links, Billings casts light on the hybrid nature of Virginia statute law and its relation to English laws.

Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia

2010-03-01 History

Author : Warren M. Billings
Release : 2010-03-01
Genre : History
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Download or read book Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia written by Warren M. Billings. This book was released on 2010-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Berkeley (1605--1677) influenced colonial Virginia more than any other man of his era, diversifying Virginia's trade with international markets, serving as a model for the planter aristocracy, and helping to establish American self-rule. An Oxford-educated playwright, soldier, and diplomat, Berkeley won appointment as governor of Virginia in 1641 after a decade in the court of King Charles I. Between his arrival in Jamestown and his death, Berkeley became Virginia's leading politician and planter, indelibly stamping his ambitions, accomplishments, and, ultimately, his failures upon the colony. In this masterly biography, Warren M. Billings offers the first full-scale treatment of Berkeley's life, revealing the extent to which Berkeley shaped early Virginia and linking his career to the wider context of seventeenth-century Anglo-American history.

Virginians Reborn

2008 History

Author : Jewel L. Spangler
Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 797/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Virginians Reborn written by Jewel L. Spangler. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately, the book chronicles a dual process of rebirth, as Virginians simultaneously formed a republic and became evangelical Christians.Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies

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