A cheerful and comfortable faith : Anglican religious practice in the elite households of eighteenth-century Virginia / Lauren F. Winner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winner, Lauren F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Episcopal Church--Virginia--History--18th century.

Episcopal Church.

Virginia--Religious life and customs.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 272 p.) ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This enlightening book examines the physical objects found in elite Virginia households of the eighteenth century to discover what they can tell us about their owners' lives and religious practices. Lauren F. Winner looks closely at punch bowls, needlework, mourning jewelry, baptismal gowns, biscuit molds, cookbooks, and many other items, illuminating the ways Anglicanism influenced daily activities and attitudes in colonial Virginia, particularly in the households of the gentry.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300168662

0300168667

OCLC:

808346461