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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Fisher, Linford D.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Waco : Baylor University Press, 2014.
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.