Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Fortune’s frowns and the finger of god
T2 - deciphering fear in the Caribbean (c. 1600–c. 1720)
AU - Barber, Sarah Elvira
PY - 2016/4
Y1 - 2016/4
N2 - This piece traces, through manuscript sources, the experience of English-speaking settlers and travellers in the greater Caribbean in the first hundred years of Anglophone presence in the region. It asks why there are so few overt references to English-speaking people expressing or reporting their fear of the climate, peoples or enemies or of the sense of the unknown, and concludes that this is because so many of the commentators were steeped in Protestant theology and therefore attributed all that befell them, for good or evil, to the Providence of God and a sign of his grace or of his wrath at their own wrongdoing.
AB - This piece traces, through manuscript sources, the experience of English-speaking settlers and travellers in the greater Caribbean in the first hundred years of Anglophone presence in the region. It asks why there are so few overt references to English-speaking people expressing or reporting their fear of the climate, peoples or enemies or of the sense of the unknown, and concludes that this is because so many of the commentators were steeped in Protestant theology and therefore attributed all that befell them, for good or evil, to the Providence of God and a sign of his grace or of his wrath at their own wrongdoing.
KW - fear Caribbean 17th-century
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9789004314733
T3 - Early American History Series
SP - 60
EP - 75
BT - Fear and the shaping of early American societies
A2 - Roper, Louis
A2 - Henneton, Lauric
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -