Southern Manuscript Sermons Before 1800 A Bibliography
Southern Manuscript Sermons Before 1800 A Bibliography by Michael A. Lofaro is published by Newfound Press, University of Tennessee Libraries in 2010. This first edition spans 735 pages and serves as a comprehensive guide to the manuscript sermon literature from the Southern colonies and states, including Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The bibliography features over 1,600 sermons authored by more than a hundred ministers from eight different denominations, providing a significant resource for research into the early South.
Readers will find that this bibliography not only documents the sermons but also offers in-depth descriptions, many of which are previously unknown. It serves as a vital tool for scholars across various disciplines, including religion, history, and literature, facilitating a deeper understanding of the southern intellectual landscape before 1800. The work encourages a more balanced appraisal of American intellectual history by making accessible a substantial collection of southern sermons, allowing for critical comparisons with those from northern and middle states. This edition is available in English and provides multiple avenues for research through its detailed entries.
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Southern Manuscript Sermons before 1800 is the first guide to the study of the manuscript sermon literature of the Southern colonies/states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The bibliography contains entries for over 1,600 sermons by over a hundred ministers affiliated with eight denominations. The compilation provides a previously unavailable major tool for research into the early South.
Richard Beale Davis began the bibliography in 1946 as part of his research for Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763, which won the National Book Award in history. Michael A. Lofaro took over the project in 1976, expanded the colonial entries (pre-1764), and added the period of 1764-1799. George M. Barringer contributed entries for Jesuit sermons. Sandra G. Hancock contributed those for Thomas Cradock.
The bibliography is also available online (dlc.lib.utk.edu/sermons). This database contains the same in-depth descriptions of these sermons, over 90 percent of which are unknown. It provides multiple avenues of access. Searches can be constructed and limited by single or combined criteria of author, repository, book of the Bible, date, state, denomination, keyword, and short title.
Scholars can employ both versions of this tool to construct a more complete picture of the southern mind before 1800 and to reveal how that mind contributes to a national ethos. The bibliography will aid many disciplines–religion, cultural and American studies, history, literature, political science, sociology, psychology, and more–and all those who wish to interpret the past and its effect upon the present. It will lead to a more balanced appraisal of American intellectual history by encouraging access to a large body of southern sermons to place alongside those of the northern and middle states for critical assessment.
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