an eighteenth-century couple's spiritual journey in the Atlantic world Fogleman, Aaron Spencer. creator text bibliography biography Electronic books. ncu 2013 monographic eng 1 online resource. "Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they preached to and doctored many Atlantic peoples in religious missions, revivals, and communal experiments, they encountered scandals, bouts of madness, and other turmoil, including within their own marriage. Aaron Spencer Fogleman's riveting narrative offers a lens through which to better understand how individuals engaged with the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and how men and women experienced many of its important aspects differently. Reynier's and Knoll's lives illuminate an underside of empire where religious radicals fought against church authority and each other to find and spread the truth; where Atlantic peoples had spiritual, medical, and linguistic encounters that authorities could not always understand or control; and where wives disobeyed husbands to seek their own truth and opportunity"-- "Jean-Francois Reynier, a French Swiss Huguenot, and his wife, Maria Barbara Knoll, a Lutheran from the German territories, crossed the Atlantic several times and lived among Protestants, Jews, African slaves, and Native Americans from Suriname to New York and many places in between. While they preached to and doctored many Atlantic peoples in religious missions, revivals, and communal experiments, they encountered scandals, bouts of madness, and other turmoil, including within their own marriage. Aaron Spencer Fogleman's riveting narrative offers a lens through which to better understand how individuals engaged with the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and how men and women experienced many of its important aspects differently"-- Aaron Spencer Fogleman. Includes bibliographical references and index. l------ Christian biography Reynier, Jean-Franc̜ois Reynier, Jean-Franc̜ois Travel Knoll, Maria Barbara Knoll, Maria Barbara Travel Missions Atlantic Ocean Region Atlantic Ocean Region Civilization 18th century HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations BR1700.3 .F64 2013eb 280/.40922 HIS036020 SOC032000 Fogleman, Aaron Spencer. (DLC) 2013021087 (OCoLC)838415431 9781469612492 (electronic bk.) 1469612496 (electronic bk.) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=582990 http://www.netread.com/jcusers/1116/2785393/image/lgcover.9781469608792.jpg http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=582990 http://www.netread.com/jcusers/1116/2785393/image/lgcover.9781469608792.jpg N$T 131029 20200709055835.0 ocn861692579 eng