1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459703503321

Autore

McCandless Peter

Titolo

Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry / / Peter McCandless [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-22092-0

1-139-06377-4

1-283-11270-1

9786613112705

1-139-07616-7

1-139-08299-X

1-139-07845-3

1-139-08072-5

0-511-97742-5

1-139-07043-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies on the American South

Disciplina

362.109757

Soggetti

Diseases - Social aspects - South Carolina - History

Diseases and history - South Carolina - History

Plantation life - South Carolina - History

Environmental health - South Carolina - History

South Carolina Social conditions

Charleston Region (S.C.) Social conditions

South Carolina Economic conditions

Charleston Region (S.C.) Economic conditions

South Carolina History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

South Carolina History 1775-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Talk about suffering -- Rhetoric and reality -- From paradise to hospital -- "A scene of diseases" -- Wooden horse -- Revolutionary fever -- Stranger's disease -- "A merciful provision of the creator" --



pt. 2. Combating pestilence -- "I wish that I had studied physick" -- "I know nothing of this disease" -- Providence, prudence, and patience -- Buying the smallpox -- Commerce, contagion, and cleanliness -- A migratory species -- Melancholy.

Sommario/riassunto

On the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted largely from the dominance of rice cultivation on plantations using imported African slave labor. This development began in the coastal lands near Charleston, South Carolina, around the end of the seventeenth century. Rice plantations spread north to the Cape Fear region of North Carolina and south to Georgia and northeast Florida in the late colonial period. The book examines perceptions and realities of the lowcountry disease environment; how the lowcountry became notorious for its 'tropical' fevers, notably malaria and yellow fever; how people combated, avoided or perversely denied the suffering they caused; and how diseases and human responses to them influenced not only the lowcountry and the South, but the United States, even helping to secure American independence.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136653803321

Autore

Eykel Eric M. Vanden

Titolo

"But their faces were all looking up" : author and reader in the Protevangelium of James / Eric M. Vanden Eykel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, [2016]

New York, : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2024

ISBN

9780567668011

0567668010

9780567668004

0567668002

9780567667991

0567667995

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 pages)

Collana

Reception of Jesus in the first three centuries ; v. 1

Disciplina

229.8

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Ch. 1: The Protevangelium of James: A History of Readings -- Ch. 2: Author, Reader, and Ancient Meanings -- Ch. 3: The Temple in the Temple (PJ 7-9) -- Ch. 4: The Virgin, The Spinner (PJ 10-12) -- Ch. 5: The Cave and the Cross (PJ 17-20) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This study of the Protevangelium of James explores the interrelationship of authors, readers, texts, and meaning. Its central aim is to better understand how the process of repetition gave rise to the narratives of the early Christian movement, and how that process continued to fuel the creativity and imagination of future generations. Divided into three parts, Vanden Eykel addresses first specific episodes in the life of the Virgin, consisting of Mary's childhood in the Jerusalem temple (PJ 7-9), her spinning thread for the temple veil (PJ 10-12), and Jesus' birth in a cave outside Bethlehem (PJ 17-20). The three episodes present a uniform picture of how the reader's discernment of intertexts can generate new layers of meaning, and that these layers may reveal new aspects of the author's meaning, some of which the author may



not have anticipated."--Bloomsbury Publishing

This study of the Protevangelium of James explores the interrelationship of authors, readers, texts, and meaning. Its central aim is to better understand how the process of repetition gave rise to the narratives of the early Christian movement, and how that process continued to fuel the creativity and imagination of future generations. Divided into three parts, Vanden Eykel addresses first specific episodes in the life of the Virgin, consisting of Mary's childhood in the Jerusalem temple (PJ 7-9), her spinning thread for the temple veil (PJ 10-12), and Jesus' birth in a cave outside Bethlehem (PJ 17-20). The three episodes present a uniform picture of how the reader's discernment of intertexts can generate new layers of meaning, and that these layers may reveal new aspects of the author's meaning, some of which the author may not have anticipated