"Planting the "great cross
The Life, and Death, of Crosses in English America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3472834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Juster (corresponding author), Susan Juster Susan Juster |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5309/willmaryquar.74.2.0241 |
| OpenAlex | W2609134780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
From a world of confessional rivalry and religious war, the cross—a contested symbol in post-Reformation Europe—was brought to North America by English adventurers (Protestant and Catholic) and planted in new ground. How did an object saturated with centuries of Christian theological and liturgical controversy function in a land filled with its own spiritual presences? What meanings did crosses convey to the earliest colonists and the native peoples they encountered? Beginning with an exploration of the politics of the cross in England from the Reformation to the Republic, this article surveys the archival and archaeological record of the exploration and colonization of English America to track the cross's presence in North America. Crosses appear in a variety of sources, sometimes as targets of iconoclastic violence, sometimes as agents of conversion, and sometimes as treasured objects of devotion. As a public monument to England's Christian heritage, the cross did the work of empire much as it did in New Spain and New France; but as an unwelcome reminder of England's own religious battles, the cross was a destabilizing figure for natives and newcomers alike
Adventure · Ancient history · Art history · Confessional · English Reformation · Ethnology · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Rivalry · Symbol (formal · White (mutation · American History and Culture · Archaeology and Natural History · History · Law · Socioeconomics of Resources and Conservation
The Archaeology of Reformation 1480–1580
The Cambridge History of Religions in America
The Stripping of the Altars
The Early Stuart Church, 1603–1642
Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands, 1544-1569
Religion in the Andes
Protestant Identities
The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism
War Against the Idols. The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin
Subject Matter
The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700
Puritans among the Indians
Rethinking Iconoclasm in Early Modern England
The Spice of Popery
Here They Once Stood
Religion and the Early South in an Age of Atlantic Empire
Belief in History
Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640
The Four Moments of the Sun
The Restoration of Altars in the 1630s
The world(s) of the cross
The Cross
Dreaming of the Savior's Blood
The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
Domme Preachers'? Post-Reformation English Catholicism and the Culture of Print
The Cross and the Serpent
Facing East from Indian Country
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |