2017 George Richardson Lecture
Might cognitive impairment, being an idiot', disqualify you from belonging' as a Quaker, in an age before membership? What was idiocy in seventeenth-century terms and, as the Age of Reason dawned, where would the idiot have stood among Friends? These and other questions come to mind from...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Quaker studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 147-178 |
| RelBib Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDG Free church ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Mordecay Erbury
B Idiocy and Quakers B Quakers Yard (Glamorgan) B Cognitive impairment (seventeenth century) B Lydia (Erbury) Fell B Henry Fell B Dorcas Erbury (Cooke) |
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| Summary: | Might cognitive impairment, being an idiot', disqualify you from belonging' as a Quaker, in an age before membership? What was idiocy in seventeenth-century terms and, as the Age of Reason dawned, where would the idiot have stood among Friends? These and other questions come to mind from study of a case in the Court of Chancery in the early 1680s. It concerned land and property in Glamorgan and the son of a notable dissenter. The case brings into fresh focus some well-known seventeenth-century Quaker names, filling gaps in the known biography about them. Above all, it sheds light on an individual about whom Friends' records are silent, though he was part of a family of Quaker activists. |
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| ISSN: | 2397-1770 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Quaker studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3828/quaker.2017.22.2.2 |
