Two troubled souls: an eighteenth-century couple's spiritual journey in the Atlantic world
"Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, NC
The @University of North Carolina Press
2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Reynier, Jean-François 1712-1775
/ Knoll, Maria Barbara -1777
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Knoll, Maria Barbara
Travel
B Christian biography B Atlantic Ocean Region Civilization 18th century B Biography B Knoll, Maria Barbara B Reynier, Jean-Franc̜ois B Reynier, Jean-Franc̜ois Travel B Missions (Atlantic Ocean Region) |
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| Summary: | "Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they preached to and doctored many Atlantic peoples in religious missions, revivals, and communal experiments, they encountered scandals, bouts of madness, and other turmoil, including within their own marriage. Aaron Spencer Fogleman's riveting narrative offers a lens through which to better understand how individuals engaged with the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and how men and women experienced many of its important aspects differently"-- "Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they preached to and doctored many Atlantic peoples in religious missions, revivals, and communal experiments, they encountered scandals, bouts of madness, and other turmoil, including within their own marriage. Aaron Spencer Fogleman's riveting narrative offers a lens through which to better understand how individuals engaged with the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and how men and women experienced many of its important aspects differently. Reynier's and Knoll's lives illuminate an underside of empire where religious radicals fought against church authority and each other to find and spread the truth; where Atlantic peoples had spiritual, medical, and linguistic encounters that authorities could not always understand or control; and where wives disobeyed husbands to seek their own truth and opportunity"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1469608790 |