The Transit of the Anglican Mind to the Maryland Colony:
Thomas Bray & the Bray Libraries of Christ Church Durham Nanjemoy, Maryland 1696-1701
Author: David R. MacDonald
ISBN: 978-1-929569-31-1
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 137
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Cloverdale Books
Price: $19.95 In Stock
Book Description
The Print culture of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries provided for what the author describes as the ‘transit of the Anglican Mind’. By focusing on two particular libraries sent to a small parish in Maryland, the age comes alive with some of the personalities involved in a story that spans both sides of the Atlantic. This book explores some of the interplay between the ‘new science’ of the English Enlightenment and the Church of England’s response to it. In the end, the reader will appreciate the scope of the undertaking to categorized knowledge, and the efforts required to send it into the largely misunderstood world of the North American plantations.