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Autore |
Nelson John K (John Kendall), <1933-> |
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Titolo |
A blessed company : parishes, parsons, and parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776 / / John K. Nelson |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908713-3-6 |
0-8078-7510-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (491 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Church history |
Virginia Church history 17th century |
Virginia Church history 18th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-462) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgments; Prologue; I.Parishes; II.Parsons; III.Divine Services. . .; IV.Parishioners; Epilogue; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, he reveals the fundamental role the church played in the political, social, and economic as well as the spiritual lives of its parishioners. Drawing on extensive research in parish and county records and other primary sources, Nelson describes Anglican Virginia's parish system, its parsons, its rituals of worship and ri |
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