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Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
ISBN: 9780190492564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had "discovered all of the secrets of the most beautiful languages in the universe." Unscripted America is a study of how colonists in North America struggled to understand, translate, and interpret Native American languages, and the significance of these languages for theological and cosmological...
In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language...
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Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
ISBN: 9780190077815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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154,52 zł |
The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England
ISBN: 9780807835241 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s.
In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards studied the human soul using the same systematic methods that philosophers applied to the study of nature. In particular,... The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrat...
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330,23 zł |
The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England
ISBN: 9781469684079 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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192,35 zł |
Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas
ISBN: 9780812246544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Christianity took root in the Americas during the early modern period when a historically unprecedented migration brought European clergy, religious seekers, and explorers to the New World. Protestant and Catholic settlers undertook the arduous journey for a variety of motivations. Some fled corrupt theocracies and sought to reclaim ancient principles and Christian ideals in a remote unsettled territory. Others intended to glorify their home nations and churches by bringing new lands and subjects under the rule of their kings. Many imagined the indigenous peoples they encountered as... Christianity took root in the Americas during the early modern period when a historically unprecedented migration brought European clergy, religiou... |
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302,58 zł |