Peter Coutts

Broschiertes Buch

Towards a history of the Quaker Meeting at Newgarden, County Carlow 1650-1730 including some New methods for analyzing Quaker records

Beschreibung

The author analyses and describes the manner in which the Newgarden Meeting evolved from circa 1650 to 1730, exploring a wide range of topics including the growth in membership, Meeting discipline, governance, socio-economic status, tithe assessment, record keeping, religious life,education and migration. A number of new approaches to the analysis of Quaker records are used to assess participation of members in Meeting governance and readers are introduced to a "Reconstitution Model" that incorporates and integrates all manner of Quaker records enabling researchers to estimate Meeting membership at any point in time as well as to explore many other aspects of Quaker life with reasonable confidence. The author demonstrates that the Meeting was essentially governed by the wealthiest Members and he offers a number of select biographies of the wealthy and Members of lesser socio-economic status for comparison.

Autor

Dr Peter Coutts is an Australian archaeologist, now retired, with a special interest in the economic and social history of Irish Quakers. He was motivated to write this book when he discovered his own family had Quaker origins on his mother's side. As he delved further into his family history he was pleasantly surprised to find that he was related to a truly extraordinary family who have and continue to leave their imprint on society at large. Dr Coutts was the foundation Director of the Victoria Archaeological Survey and when he retired in 1986, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the History Department of LaTrobe University, Victoria, Australia. He is an economic prehistorian, author of a wide range of books and articles that deal with a diversity of subjects mainly, but not confined to, prehistory and historical archaeology in Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 944g
• ISBN-13: 9781365192722
• ISBN-10: 1365192725
• Artikelnr.: 45376410