Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Lecture 1: England as home. England was a latecomer in the scramble of European powers to claim the New World. What did the English bring from their political and religious landscape to America? What tales returned home? Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Lecture 2: The Voyage to America:
expectation and reality, its peopling and founding. America was proclaimed by its promoters and entrepreneurs as a New Eden, as a paradise. In Virginia, its early destiny was shaped by swampland and disease. How has this conflict between aspiration and reality, idealism and pragmatism shaped our values? How was the Virginia colony different than the other later English settlements? We will also explore African-American settlement in the early colonial period. |
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Lecture 3: Native Americans: Pocahontas, John Smith and the Powatans through 1622. The shape of early relations between the English colonists and the Native Americans were never smooth on either side, and comprehension on both sides was at first difficult and then bloody. This encounter marks the beginning of a long history of how Americans deal with difference: hospitality and hostility. What happened in Hampton in 1610 at is founding is a paradigm for relationships between the Native Americans and Americans as the English speaking world moved westwards as well as a paradigm for African-American relationships which began a century later. | Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Lecture 4: The founding of Hampton, and St. John’s, 1610, and its governance (Dale’s Laws, 1610). From very tenuous beginnings, Hampton and St. John’s were founded as reflections of the English priorities in ordering the life of an expanding colony. Waterways were mapped and contact with England was improved. The primacy of the religious life is seen in the ordering of its first laws, promulgated in Hampton in 1610 which followed a strict and severe Puritan outline.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Lecture 5: The first sites of the Elizabeth City Parish, its appurtenances and liturgy: The Book of Common Prayer, 1559.
We will explore the likely architecture of the first buildings of St. John’s. We will talk about religious practices of the people who attended. We will explore some of the customs instituted in the Book of Common Prayer of 1559 used in churches after the church’s founding.
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