{"title":"Timothy J Johnson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"facing-florida-book-timothy-j-johnson-9780883820001","title":"Facing Florida","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFacing Florida\u003c\/i\u003e is the third volume of a series sponsored by the Academy of American Franciscan History and Flagler College exploring the Franciscan legacy in the Spanish Borderlands. This volume focuses specifically on early modern southeastern America. The volume's multidisciplinary approach, Dr. Kathleen Deagan notes in the introduction, provides us \"with new multivalent scholarship that often challenges prevailing assumptions about motives, social relations and power structures in the mission systems.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDespite the diversity of topics in the volume, several thematic threads run through the essays. One is a concern with locating belief, motive and intention in past actors. Eliciting thought and belief in the past is a notoriously murky undertaking, but one that is directly relevant to understanding the legacy of the Franciscan project in America. Another thread in the volume is a concern with language and meaning, particularly in the ways language has conditioned how we understand the past from written and iconographic sources. A third is \"exemplars,\" with a meaning similar to that used by Franciscan friars in conversion. Many of the essays in the volume incorporate historical anecdote, but some of the contributors highlight the ways that foregrounding a particular individual or event can bring important but underrepresented issues into sharper focus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe result is an important new collection that explores innovative avenues in the study of southeastern American Indian culture and religion prior to the 1900s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51235465003281,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51235465527569,"sku":"NIN9780883820001","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0883820005.jpg?v=1757413306"},{"product_id":"from-la-florida-to-la-california-book-timothy-j-johnson-9780883820681","title":"From La Florida to La California","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe thirteenth-century Franciscan Roger Bacon wrote \"Place is the principle of the generation of things\" \u003ci\u003e(Opus majus,\u003c\/i\u003e 301). Simply put, places have agency; they make things happen. The city of St. Augustine is just such a place, and the Franciscan friars who arrived there as early as the sixteenth century shaped the city's history and surrounding region for over two centuries. In view of the 450th anniversary (2015) of St. Augustine, Flagler College hosted an International Conference (March 24-26, 2011), entitled \"From La Florida to La California: The Genesis and Realization of Franciscan Evangelization in the Spanish Borderlands.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This gathering brought together anthropologists, archeologists, historians, linguists, and theologians from both sides of the Atlantic to examine the political, cultural, and spiritual impact of the Franciscans on the human geographies of Florida, Georgia, Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. The conference essays, gathered in this volume, are the first systematic study of Franciscan missionary efforts throughout the Spanish Borderlands. They reveal that the momentous encounter between the Old and New World, still evident today in St. Augustine, cannot be divorced from the story of the poor man from Assisi and those who followed him.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51235465068817,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51235465625873,"sku":"NIN9780883820681","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0883820684.jpg?v=1763129123"},{"product_id":"landscapes-and-languages-book-timothy-j-johnson-9780883823156","title":"Landscapes and Languages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDistributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of the Academy of American Franciscan History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe encounter of Indigenous peoples with Europeans, including Franciscans, remains an important and exciting field of research. This volume presents fifteen cutting-edge and nuanced studies of this encounter in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century La Florida, what is now the southeastern United States. As professor Kathleen Deagan notes, the collection examines \"how Indigenous people and Franciscan missionaries . . . perceived, constructed and contested their physical and cultural landscapes through language, both written and performative.\" \u003ci\u003eLandscapes and Languages\u003c\/i\u003e advances the Franciscan and the Spanish Borderlands Project that began in earnest with the international conference \"From La Florida to La California: The Genesis and Realization of Franciscan Evangelization in the Spanish Borderlands\" held at Flagler College in Saint Augustine, Florida (2011). This combined effort of Flagler College and the Academy of American Franciscan History sought to unite experts from both sides of the Atlantic to examine the political, cultural, and spiritual influences of the Franciscans on the early modern cultures of Florida and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume mirrors the depth and breadth of current interdisciplinary scholarship. Anthropologists, archaeologists, linguists, historians, and theologians from the Americas and Europe explore how languages and landscapes, both literally and figuratively, first shaped and influenced the material-spiritual cultures of the Indigenous peoples of Northeastern Florida. While La Florida holds pride of place among the essays, the spatial-linguistic theme also offers a rich field of exploration for scholars focusing on New Mexico, Arizona, Central Mexico, Yucatan, and Spain. These essays evince the advance of scholarship that has marked the lively exchanges that have taken place at Flagler College since 2011. Topics range from the cultivation of landscapes through agriculture and village construction to the role of gendered cityscapes in ministry to how geographical knowledge can assist in decoding deities. The beauty and power of language, revealed in the intricacies of grammar, the passion of mystical performances and poetry, the gravitas of scholastic texts, and the challenges of translation, when woven into the examined landscapes of experience and imagination, produce a testament to the cultural significance of La Florida and beyond and invite further collaborative examination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53164463259921,"sku":"NGR9780883823156","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53346713075985,"sku":"NIN9780883823156","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780883823156.jpg?v=1773136368"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-timothy-j-johnson.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}