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Meetinghouses of early New England
Author
Title
Meetinghouses of early New England / Peter Benes.
ISBN
9781558499102
1558499105
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]
Copyright Notice Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (vi, 446 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans
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Notes
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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Summary
Benes, the director of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, has produced a handsome and magisterial volume that will be the definitive study of the meetinghouses of Puritan New England for this generation. Building on earlier work by himself and others, Benes offers not radical reinterpretation but carefully nuanced analysis and synthesis of a mass of information (much of which is tabulated in appendixes). Although focusing on architectural form and detail, the author studies the meetinghouse as a religious, social, and cultural artifact as well as an architectural phenomenon.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 15, 2023
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-428) and index.
Contents
pt. I. THE BACKGROUND
1. The Meetinghouse and the Community
2. The Meetinghouse and the Church
3. The Builders
4. Seating the Congregation
pt. II. THE ARCHITECTURE
5. Meetinghouses of the Seventeenth-Century
6. Meetinghouses of the Eighteenth-Century
7. Meetinghouses of the Early Nineteenth-Century
pt. III. CONCLUSIONS
8. Some Theoretical Models
9. Meetinghouse Architecture as Puritan Ecclesiology
10. A Fleeting Image.
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