Main entry:

Benes, Peter.

Title & Author:

Meetinghouses of early New England / Peter Benes.

Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]

Description:

vi, 446 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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

ISBN:

9781558499102 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1558499105 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Public buildings New England History.
Wooden churches New England History.
Vernacular architecture New England History.
Bâtiments publics Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire.
Églises en bois Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire.
Architecture vernaculaire Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire.
Public buildings
Vernacular architecture
Wooden churches
Public facilities.
New England Church history.
New England

Form/genre:

Church history
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289922
Call No.: NA4210 .B46 2012
Status: Available