Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751JHU Press, 2020 M03 3 - 1088 páginas French Huguenots made enormous contributions to the life and culture of colonial New York during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Huguenot craftsmen were the city's most successful artisans, turning out unrivaled works of furniture which were distinguished by unique designs and arcane details. More than just decorative flourishes, however, the visual language employed by Huguenot artisans reflected a distinct belief system shaped during the religious wars of sixteenth-century France. In Fortress of the Soul, historian Neil Kamil traces the Huguenots' journey to New York from the Aunis-Saintonge region of southwestern France. There, in the sixteenth century, artisans had created a subterranean culture of clandestine workshops and meeting places inspired by the teachings of Bernard Palissy, a potter, alchemist, and philosopher who rejected the communal, militaristic ideology of the Huguenot majority which was centered in the walled city of La Rochelle. Palissy and his followers instead embraced a more fluid, portable, and discrete religious identity that encouraged members to practice their beliefs in secret while living safely—even prospering—as artisans in hostile communities. And when these artisans first fled France for England and Holland, then left Europe for America, they carried with them both their skills and their doctrine of artisanal security. Drawing on significant archival research and fresh interpretations of Huguenot material culture, Kamil offers an exhaustive and sophisticated study of the complex worldview of the Huguenot community. From the function of sacred violence and alchemy in the visual language of Huguenot artisans, to the impact among Protestants everywhere of the destruction of La Rochelle in 1628, to the ways in which New York's Huguenots interacted with each other and with other communities of religious dissenters and refugees, Fortress of the Soul brilliantly places American colonial history and material life firmly within the larger context of the early modern Atlantic world. |
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... culture made in colonial America, I confronted the puzzle of the New York leather chair for the first time. I was perplexed by this enigmatic thing that tradition had attributed to the hand of some nameless New York “Dutch” craftsman ...
... culture is also to encounter those people, places and things with which they came into contact. Wherever they went they created new contexts worthy of a kind of total history of material life. This is the subject of Fortress of the Soul ...
... culture address crucial problems in the maintenance and acculturation of colonial identities? What methods can historians use to analyze artifacts for evidence of social interaction, boundaries, and power relationships in pluralistic ...
... Culture, then directed by my friend and colleague John J. McCusker. This experience culminated in a conference that drew its themes from my research and the resulting volume of the same title, Religion, Popular Culture and Material Life ...
... culture on the move, its membership fragmented by chronic warfare, exclusion, and political instability and actively in search of new modes of security. How, then, was security reinvented as a cultural practice by refugees from ...
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The Context of Artisanal Enthusiasm in AunisSaintonge | 125 |
Rustic Artisans and the Diffusion of Paracelsian Discourses to New Worlds | 171 |
Bernard Palissy John Winthrop the Younger and Benjamin Franklin | 242 |
Science Secrecy and Security at the Siege of La Rochelle 16271635 | 409 |
Relocation of Spatial Identity to the New World 16281787 | 461 |
The Commons Debates of 1628 | 508 |
The Huguenot Counterfeit and the Threat to Englands Internal Security | 544 |
Hogarths Hog Lane and the Huguenot Fortress of Memory | 562 |
PART III The Secrets of the Craft | 709 |
Disappearance and Material Life in Colonial New York | 711 |
Little Histories Avignon France 16011602 Flushing Long Island 16571726 | 767 |
War Separation the Sound and the Materiality of Time | 277 |
EIGHT The Art of the Earth | 316 |
PART II The Fragmentation of the Body | 387 |
NINE In Patientia Sauvitas or The Invisible Fortress Departs | 389 |
Sundials Family Pieces and Political Culture in PreRevolutionary New York | 906 |
Notes | 925 |
Index | 1033 |
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