Meetinghouses of Early New England Peter Benes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benes, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vernacular architecture--New England--History.

Vernacular architecture.

Wooden churches--New England--History.

Wooden churches.

Public buildings--New England--History.

Public buildings.

New England--Church history.

New England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 446 pages ) illustrations ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Benes, the director of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, has produced a handsome and magisterial volume that will be the definitive study of the meetinghouses of Puritan New England for this generation. Building on earlier work by himself and others, Benes offers not radical reinterpretation but carefully nuanced analysis and synthesis of a mass of information (much of which is tabulated in appendixes). Although focusing on architectural form and detail, the author studies the meetinghouse as a religious, social, and cultural artifact as well as an architectural phenomenon.

Contents:

pt. I. THE BACKGROUND

1. The Meetinghouse and the Community

2. The Meetinghouse and the Church

3. The Builders

4. Seating the Congregation

pt. II. THE ARCHITECTURE

5. Meetinghouses of the Seventeenth-Century

6. Meetinghouses of the Eighteenth-Century

7. Meetinghouses of the Early Nineteenth-Century

pt. III. CONCLUSIONS

8. Some Theoretical Models

9. Meetinghouse Architecture as Puritan Ecclesiology

10. A Fleeting Image.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-428) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781613762288

1613762283

OCLC:

830023860

Publisher Number:

99948488356

2027/heb34668 hdl