Decoding Roger Williams : The Lost Essay of Rhode Island's Founding Father /
Near the end of his life, Roger Williams, Rhode Island founder and father of American religious freedom, scrawled an encrypted essay in the margins of a colonial-era book. For more than 300 years those shorthand notes remained indecipherable ... until a team of Brown University undergraduates led by...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Waco :
Baylor University Press,
2014.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Cover; Half title page, Title page, copyright; Contents ; Figures and Maps; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Part 1. A Key into the Language of Roger Williams: Cracking and Interpreting the Roger Williams Code; Part 2. "A Brief Reply to a Small Book Written by John Eliot" (ca. 1680); Part 3. Baptism Discovered Plainly and Faithfully, According to the Word of God (London 1675 [1672]); Part 4. A Brief Answer to a Small Book Written by John Norcot Against Infant-Baptisme (1679); Suggestions for Further Reading and Research; Index.