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On Enchanted Flatland: Iain McGilchrist & the Problem of Romantic Liberalism
A follow-up to my contribution to Rosy Cross: Question of Right & Truth of Christianity
Plain and peculiar: a case study of nineteenth-century Quaker clothing
Material culture scholars have long struggled to reconcile the Quaker doctrine of plainness with the appearance of Quaker material goods. Early descriptions of Quakers and early scholarship on Quaker clothing decreed that Quakers adopted a distinct style of dress that set them apart from their non-Quaker neighbors. This idea has grown into a mythology of Quaker dress and has led to the erroneous idea that all Quakers wore undecorated clothing in somber colors. This thesis first traces the history of scholarship on Quaker clothing, the early years of which were heavily influenced by Colonial Revival thinking. It then examines the concept of “plainness” to see how confusion over the meaning of the word has led to confusion about Quaker material goods. Finally, this thesis uses a collection of documentably Quaker clothing from the nineteenth century to examine the ways in which clothing and religion intersected for one particular group of Delaware Valley Friends and to expand the boundaries of the traditional definitions of “Quaker” dress.
Variations on ‘Plainness’: Quaker Dress in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
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The Chesapeake Slave Trade:Regional Patterns, African Origins, and Some Implications | History Cooperative
THE movement of peoples from the Old World to the New and the resulting transfers or transformations of homeland cultures in new physical and social environments has been a central theme of early American history. Overwhelmingly, historians have written on the transfers of peoples from sixteenth- through eighteenth-century Europe and sub-Saharan Africa to various American destinations in isolation from one another. When these two contemporary migration flows are considered together, sheer numbers demonstrate that, up to 1776, the majority of men, women, and children transported from the Old World to British North America were, to varying degrees, unfree. And increasingly throughout most of the eighteenth century, those migrants came from Africa and were permanently enslaved.
Erasmusprijswinnaars - Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
It takes only a glance at a newspaper nowadays to see that much of what we once took for granted is either being cast aside or turned on its head. Indeed, with floods sweeping away entire cities, and the prospect of a nuclear war closer than it has ever been, I couldn’t bring myself to […]
Entangled Magic in the Medieval Latin West
This article focusses on the history of learned magic in late medieval Europe, breaking a period of about 500 years into chronological stages to explore how medieval supporters and critics of magic represented the art and responded to each other’s arguments, then reframed their own in a continuous dynamic entanglement. In this period learned magic texts from diverse religious and cosmological traditions (primarily Christian, Jewish, Arabic and Greco-Roman) circulated among people familiar with, and emotionally invested in, a great variety of institutional and informal rituals. Sources reveal a vibrant culture of exchanges of texts between members of religious orders, physicians and lay men, clerics and lay women – a culture of entanglement: discussion, borrowing, critique and adaptation alongside practitioner-client relationships and necessary secrecy and concealment.
The Grid: A Lecture on Cybotron and Techno-Vernacular Expressionism by DeForrest Brown, Jr.
The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan | East Bay Booksellers
This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets.
Discipline, discourse and deviation: the material life of Philadelphia Quakers, 1762-1781
Quaker plainness in the eighteenth century is incompletely understood. Despite theology, Quaker-owned Philadelphia Chippendale furniture is not plain in appearance--scholars have been unable to reconcile theological understanding and the range of acceptable objects. Philadelphia Monthly Meeting minutes and the Book of Discipline reveal that plainness is used metaphorically, and does not translate directly to the object world. Plainness is defined through the Quaker concept of the inner light and individual, equal access to God. The concept of conversation highlights the issue of mediating theological and material life. Deviation may show lack of religious conviction or a different but valid position; disownment testimonies embody this discursive ambiguity. Philadelphia Chippendale high chests and chest-on-chests exist as a separate expressive system. Variation is allowable within the stylistic competence, and may not correspond to Quaker precepts. As one aspect of Quaker conversation, furniture ties together theological and material life within a single expressive sphere. {Abstract from ProQuest citation page)
Helen’s History and Herbalism Walk - The Cockburn Association
Water of Leith Walk
William Blake: the scourge of the tyrants
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Searching for the digital God: markets, inevitability, and unaccountability in the techno-optimist cosmotechnics
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