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A cheerful and comfortable faith : Anglican religious practice in the elite households of eighteenth-century Virginia / Lauren F. Winner.
LIBRA BX5917.V8 W56 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winner, Lauren F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Episcopal Church--Virginia--History--18th century.
- Episcopal Church.
- History.
- Virginia--Religious life and customs.
- Virginia.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- With cold water and silver bowls : becoming an Anglican in eighteenth-century Virginia
- Becoming a "Christian woman" : needlework and girls' religious formation
- People of the book: liturgical culture and the domestic uses of prayer books
- Sarah Foote Stuart's fish sauce: the liturgical year around the table
- To comfort the living : the household choreography of death and mourning
- Epilogue. Lucy Smith Digges's "Little old fashioned oblong black walnut" table : household religious practice in Episcopalian Virginia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300124699
- 0300124694
- OCLC:
- 502676195
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