Sue Zemka. Victorian Testaments: The Bible, Christology, and Literary Authority in Early-Nineteenth-Century British Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 1997. Pp. viii, 279. $45.00. ISBN 0-8047-2848-8

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 705-706
Author(s):  
Ruth apRoberts
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Literary Authority ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Bible ◽  
British Culture

Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers. By George W. Hilton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 364, $75.00.

2003 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 297-298
Author(s):  
Diane Lindstrom
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Lake Michigan ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Transportation Studies

The author, a retired UCLA economist, has written a number of highly specialized transportation studies. In his Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers much as in his Great Lakes Car Ferries and American Narrow Gauge Railroads, George W. Hinton acknowledges that “the principle purpose is to provide antiquarian scholarship” (p. xi). Here we learn about the wooden and steel, sailing and steam ships that operated on Lake Michigan from the early nineteenth century until well into the twentieth century. Although some attention is devoted to the interlake trade, the passenger lines that draw most of the author's attention are those that served Lake Michigan points exclusively.

“In the Thickest of the Fight”: The Reverend James Scholefield (1790-1855) and the Bible Christians of Manchester and Salford

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Pickering ◽  
Alex Tyrrell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Bible

Few places in early nineteenth-century Britain had as grim a reputation as the Manchester suburb of Ancoats. In this concentration of “dark, satanic mills” and festering slums were some of the worst social problems of the Industrial Revolution. Angus Reach, a journalist with the Morning Chronicle, who visited Ancoats in the late 1840s, described it as “entirely an operative colony” containing “some of the most squalid-looking streets, inhabited by swarms of the most squalid-looking people which I have ever seen.” While making his way through this “labyrinth,” Reach saw no promise of anything better. Even the handful of chapels seemed to complement the scene of hopelessness; in a pathetically futile attempt to carry the eye up to a vision of something better their “infinitesimal” Gothic arches and ornaments only served to reinforce “the grimy nakedness” of the surrounding factories.

scholarly journals The Beginnings of Bible Mission of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Early Nineteenth Century Hungary

Perichoresis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Ottó Pecsuk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Revolution Of 1848 ◽  
The Revolution ◽  
Policies And Practices

Abstract The paper examines the very beginnings of Bible Mission in Hungary within the Habsburg Empire in the first part of the nineteenth century. It divides the first thirty years into two major epochs: the one before Gottlieb August Wimmer, Lutheran pastor of Felsőlövő (Oberschützen) and agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) and the one characterized by his work until the revolution of 1848. In the paper, I summarize the main obstacles of Bible Mission both political and religious as well as the main achievements and formations of policies and practices that still define Bible Mission of the Bible Societies in all around the world. The work of BFBS in Hungary in this period was also intertwined with the formative period of the Budapest Scottish Mission, a topic that I also touch in the paper.

scholarly journals Miscellany and Collegiality in the British Periodical Press: TheHarmonicon(1823–1833)

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-293
Author(s):  
Erin Johnson-Hill
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
School Of Music ◽  
The Status ◽  
Musical Knowledge ◽  
The Many ◽  
British Culture ◽  
National Styles

The Harmonicon was, in its day, London's premiere music periodical, gaining a wide and loyal readership at home and abroad. Perhaps the most the distinctive feature of the journal was its deliberate imperative to raise what it considered to be the ‘lamentable’ level of musical knowledge held by the British reading public. The journal's editor, William Ayrton, was deeply concerned that there was a lack of a national school of music in his own country that could ever match that which his rival French and German critics called their own. In this light, I argue that the journal's appeal and economic success was due to a didactic philosophy of ‘collegiality’ and ‘miscellany’ – to borrow William Weber's terms – as a means of disseminating musical knowledge to the broadest readership possible. Through reviewing, critiquing and publishing a remarkably assorted array of national styles and genres of music, the Harmonicon attempted to create a very general type of musical knowledge in Britain in the early nineteenth century, one which looked necessarily beyond national borders in an effort to build up a shared knowledge of music. Data drawn from musical examples spanning all 11 years of the journal's print run is analysed, assessing in particular the high number of international composers featured in the journal. The many miscellaneous strands interwoven throughout the Harmonicon reflect a mode of thinking about music that was integral to a valiant effort to raise the status and awareness of music in early nineteenth-century British culture.

Milman’s History of the Jews: a Real Place with Real People

2000 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 319-328
Author(s):  
Alistair Mason
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Real Place ◽  
Real People ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking

For English-speaking Protestants in the early nineteenth century, the Holy Land lived in the Bible. In that Land God had done his mighty works, and every name recalled an episode in the history of salvation. Its placenames were as real and resonant to believers as those of their own home district. Chapel-names like Mizpah and Shiloh were not just ‘somewhere in the Old Testament’, as they are to modern readers. Filtered through the anachronism of its readers’ imaginations, and haloed with devotion, the Holy Land was indeed holy.

The Idea of the City of Refuge

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Persecution ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
Exclusive Property ◽  
City Of Refuge ◽  
The City

This chapter begins by describing the meaning of “city of refuge,” which derives from the Bible, for it was only logical that Christian societies suffering persecution and seeking sanctuary look there to find solace and guidance. Because the city of refuge is a living tradition and not the exclusive property of any denomination, its boundaries are somewhat elastic. This book looks at sanctuaries built to house religious refugees (such as Freudenstadt and the settlements of the Moravians), those built by charismatic communal leaders (the three towns created by George Rapp), and even some that were purely imaginary (those planned by Albrecht Dürer and Johann Valentin Andreae). The socialist Utopias of the early nineteenth century stand at the culmination of this tradition, refuges not from religious persecution but industrial capitalism.

Evangelist at the Gate: Robert Morrison's Views on Mission

2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-330
Author(s):  
FUK-TSANG YING
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Missionary Movement ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Future Work ◽  
True Measure ◽  
The Way

The arrival of Robert Morrison in Macau on 4 September 1807 marked the beginning of the nineteenth-century Protestant missionary movement in China. The most familiar and important legacy of Morrison is his translation of the Bible into Chinese and the compilation of A dictionary of the Chinese language. When Morrison concluded his work in 1832, only ten Chinese had been baptised. However, the true measure of his accomplishment is not to be sought in the harvest of souls, but in the foundations that laid for future work. As a pioneer missionary in the nineteenth century, Morrison lived in an alien ‘heathen’ world for twenty-five years. How did he hold on to his evangelistic vision and passion in such an adverse and unfavourable environment? This essay aims to sketch Robert Morrison's views on mission, focusing on the way in which he responded to traditional Chinese culture and religion and the huge political obstacles in early nineteenth-century China.

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