Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Women Novelists: A Critical Reference Guide by Doreen Alvarez Saar and Mary Anne Schofield

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Author(s):  
Jane Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
American Women ◽  
Women Novelists ◽  
Reference Guide ◽  
Anglo American

Truth-Telling in the Eighteenth-Century English Courtroom

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Oldham
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Innocent People ◽  
Adversary System ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Truth Finding

Mirjan Damaška, in his 1973 comparative study of criminal procedure in the Anglo-American and continental traditions, asserts that “the continental non-adversary system of procedure is more committed to the search for truth than is the Anglo-American adversary system.” He reasons that the stronger procedural obstacles to truth-finding in the adversary system derive from a collective horror of convicting innocent people.

‘The Asylum of Liberty’

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-336
Author(s):  
D.H. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
International Order ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Free People

This chapter shows how ideas about Britain’s unique destiny shaped shifting conceptions of American identity during the imperial crisis. The conflicts of the mid-eighteenth century bequeathed to colonists the hope of British hegemony in the European world. This hegemony was to be geopolitical, but also cultural, reflecting the triumph of a Shaftesburian Anglo-French Kulturkampf over the Berkeleian idea of Anglo-American translatio imperii and translatio studii. The sense of America’s contribution to this destiny acted as an important catalyst for the development of a discretely American sense of corporate honour. This process was intensified by the idea of British guardianship over an international order of free states, which allowed colonists to identify themselves with a brotherhood of free people as an alternative to the British imperial community, grounded in new understandings of history that undercut the traditional mores of Hanoverian loyalism.

Sigonio in Anglo-American Projects to Reform the Imperial Constitution, 1751–1777

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Mark Somos
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
American Identity ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Intense Debate

This chapter explores Carlo Sigonio’s long-term impact by zooming in on the nascent United States of America. It shows that Sigonio was seen as a leading comparative constitutional historian and one of the most cited authorities that would-be reformers turned to in the intense debate on the reform of the British imperial constitution in the second half of the eighteenth century. His analyses of the Roman Empire yielded timeless lessons for metropolitan and colonial administrators alike. Most importantly, Sigonio structured his studies of Roman, Athenian, Hebrew, and medieval Italian laws and customs in a way that revealed these complex historical states’ constitutional essence, making comparative analysis possible. This chapter shows why American lawyers, British politicians, and merchants and soldiers with a true British–American identity, explicitly drew on Sigonio’s analysis of Roman colonization in several reform plans for the British Empire, with particular attention to the American colonies.

Pietism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen C. Guelzo
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
State University ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
American Evangelicalism ◽  
The Church

‘Pietism’ refers to a Protestant reform movement, arising in the late 1600s in Lutheran Germany, which turned away from contests over theological and dogmatic identity in Protestant confessionalism and urged renewed attention to questions of personal piety and devotion. As such, it has only the most tenuous historical connections to the Christocentric piety of the devotio moderna or the northern humanist piety of Erasmus or Zwingli. It found its first major voice in P.J. Spener and A.H. Francke, and established its principal centres of influence at the state university at Halle in 1691 and the Moravian community at Herrnhut in 1722. Pietism found followers and allies in the European Reformed churches, in the Church of England (especially through the example of John and Charles Wesley and through the Moravian exile community in England), and in Britain’s English-speaking colonies. In the colonies, pietism not only found Lutheran and Reformed colonial hosts, but also saw in New England Puritanism a movement of similar aspirations. Pietism’s impact on the spirituality of western Europe and America was clearly felt in the eighteenth-century Protestant Awakenings, and continues to have an influence in the shape of Anglo-American evangelicalism.

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