Adam Coward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3465597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Coward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Coward |
| SIGNATURE | COWARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museum of Modern Art |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Original Memoirs of Apparitions & Spirits in Wales’ ( c .1738): Publishing on the Supernatural in the Long Eighteenth Century
The folkloric anecdotes collated by the Rev. Edmund Jones (1702–93) constitute our richest surviving source material on supernatural beliefs in eighteenth-century Wales. Published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, Jones’s writings appear to be temporally distant from their nearest intellectual antecedents: the ‘anti-Sadducee’ works of the late seventeenth century. This article discusses a previously overlooked manuscript on apparitio…
Spiritual journeys: “Purposeful travel” and the writings of the Reverend Edmund Jones (1702–1793)
The Reverend Edmund Jones (1702–1793), an Independent preacher from north-west Monmouthshire, is best known for his works on apparitions, fairies, and ghosts and a notable history of his birth parish. Jones was also a revivalist, undertaking extensive itinerant preaching throughout Wales and the border counties of England until late in his long life. Jones's travel was “purposeful”, and such purposeful travel, undertaken in connection with some v…
Edmund Jones and the Pwcca'r Trwyn
Motivated by a religiously-based defensive credulity, the accounts of apparitions recorded by Edmund Jones (1702-93) are heavily coloured by his personal religious beliefs. One of the best examples of this is his account of the Pwcca'r Trwyn, which differs widely from other versions of the tale. Through close investigation of Jones's telling, greater insight can be gained into his own folkloristics and the reluctance of later writers to use him a…
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Edmund Jones and the Pwcca'r Trwyn
Motivated by a religiously-based defensive credulity, the accounts of apparitions recorded by Edmund Jones (1702-93) are heavily coloured by his personal religious beliefs. One of the best examples of this is his account of the Pwcca'r Trwyn, which differs widely from other versions of the tale. Through close investigation of Jones's telling, greater insight can be gained into his own folkloristics and the reluctance of later writers to use him a…
Spiritual journeys: “Purposeful travel” and the writings of the Reverend Edmund Jones (1702–1793)
The Reverend Edmund Jones (1702–1793), an Independent preacher from north-west Monmouthshire, is best known for his works on apparitions, fairies, and ghosts and a notable history of his birth parish. Jones was also a revivalist, undertaking extensive itinerant preaching throughout Wales and the border counties of England until late in his long life. Jones's travel was “purposeful”, and such purposeful travel, undertaken in connection with some v…
Original Memoirs of Apparitions & Spirits in Wales’ ( c .1738): Publishing on the Supernatural in the Long Eighteenth Century
The folkloric anecdotes collated by the Rev. Edmund Jones (1702–93) constitute our richest surviving source material on supernatural beliefs in eighteenth-century Wales. Published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, Jones’s writings appear to be temporally distant from their nearest intellectual antecedents: the ‘anti-Sadducee’ works of the late seventeenth century. This article discusses a previously overlooked manuscript on apparitio…
Historical Studies of British Isles (3 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Folkloristics (1 works)