Reading The Gravestones Of Old New England
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Author | : John G.S. Hanson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476643296 |
The graveyards of old New England hold an incredible range of poetic messages in the epitaphs etched into the gravestones, each a profound expression of emotion, culture, religion, and literature. These epitaphs are old, but their themes are timeless: mourning and faith, grief and hope, loss, and memory. This book tells the story of a years-long walk among gravestones and shares insights gained along the way. It identifies the source texts and authors chosen for these stones; interprets something of the tastes and beliefs of the people who did the choosing; offers some hypotheses on the various ways these texts were accessible to readers in remote towns and villages; gives a brief summary of the religious context of the times; and reflects on how the language and literature chosen for these epitaphs express these peoples' conflicted and evolving attitudes towards life, death, and eternity.
Author | : Edmund Vincent Gillon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Reproductions of gravestone rubbings from grave sites in New England.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-01-02 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780819501240 |
Evocative photographs and essay illuminate early American gravestones Gravestones are colonial America's earliest sculpture and they provide a unique physical link to the European people who settled here. Carved in Stone book is an elegant collection of over 80 fine duotone photographs, each a personal meditation on an old stone carving, and on New England's past, where these stones tell stories about death at sea, epidemics such as small pox, the loss of children, and a grim view of the afterlife. The essay is a graceful narrative that explores a long personal involvement with the stones and their placement in New England landscape, and attempts to trace the curious and imperfectly documented story of carvers. Brief quotes from early New England writers accompany the images, and captions provide basic information about each stone. These meditative portraits present an intimate view of figures from New England graveyards and will be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in early Americana and fine art photography.
Author | : Allan I. Ludwig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : |
In Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art flourished: the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers. This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the first to consider this art in depth as a meaningful aesthetic-spiritual expression. It is reissued for today's readers, with a new preface outlining changes in the field since the book appeared in 1966.
Author | : Thomas Clifford Mann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Epitaphs |
ISBN | : 9781566190497 |
Author | : Robyn S. Lacy |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2020-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789730430 |
This book explores the relationship and organization of 17th Century burial landscapes within their associated settlements and the wider setting of colonial northeast British North America to provide readers with a more holistic understanding of settlers’ relationship with mortality.
Author | : Roxie J. Zwicker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-08 |
Genre | : Burial |
ISBN | : 9781933002828 |
Unearch some of the unusual superstitions, epitaphs, and burial customs of Old New England. Once you step into these outdoor museums of stone and visit the dead you may find that you don't want to leave.
Author | : Harriette Merrifield Forbes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Boston (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sylvia E. Thornbush |
Publisher | : Bentham Science Publishers |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2020-04-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811441243 |
his interdisciplinary reference work presents a linked consideration, to the reader, of physical- cultural (physicocultural) representations of headstones located in urban churchyards in England and Scotland. The geomorphology of landscapes relevant to these locations is explained with the help of detailed case studies from Oxford and Edinburgh. The integrated physicocultural approach addresses the conservation of the archaeological record and presents a cross-temporal perspective of landscape change – of the headstones as landforms in their landscape (as part of deathscapes). The physical record (of headstones) is examined in the context of both cultural representation and change. In this way, an integrated approach is employed that connects the physical (natural) and cultural (social) records kept by historians and archeologists over the years. Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards is of interest to geomorphologists, historians and scholars interested in understanding landscaping studies and cultural nuance of specific historical urban sites in England and Scotland.
Author | : Glenn A. Knoblock |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2015-12-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476620423 |
Evidence of the early history of African Americans in New England is found in the many old cemeteries and burial grounds in the region, often in hidden or largely forgotten locations. This unique work covers the burial sites of African Americans--both enslaved and free--in each of the New England states, and uncovers how they came to their final resting places. The lives of well known early African Americans are discussed, including Venture Smith and Elizabeth Freeman, as well as the lives of many ordinary individuals--military veterans, business men and women, common laborers and children. The author's examination of burial sites and grave markers reveals clues that help document the lives of black New Englanders from the 1640s to the early 1900s.