Annotated Bibliography: Final Draft

Schweitzer, Ivy. "John's Winthrop's 'Model' of American affiliation." Early American Literature, vol. 40,

no. 3, 2005, p. 441+. Gale Literature Resource Center, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A138482830/GLS?

u=viva2_vccs&sid=GLS&xid=42ff6f93. Accessed 1 Nov. 2020.

A seminal they called it, precursor of this emotional collectivity, according to Coviello, is John

Winthrop's famous address, "A Model of Christian Charity," delivered in the spring of 1630, probably at

Southampton to a band of Protestant dissenters on the eve of their departure to establish a purified

commonwealth in the new world. In fact, the multivalent exchange Winthrop recommends to his

followers, which he extols as "a most equal and sweet kind of Commerce. A few of the contexts from

Winthrop’s charity, Winthrop founded his famous plan or "model" for the "City upon a Hill" he

envisioned in New England on an understanding of love, in the original Greek agape, which early Church

fathers called Christian brotherhood or fellowship. The Vulgate renders this form of affiliation as caritas,

while the Geneva and King James Bibles sometimes translate it as "charity." Based off of what I have

read on this I don’t think would be a great citation for my paper just because it made me really confused

at times. 209

Moseley, James. "The Perils of the Text." Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, edited by Thomas J.

Schoenberg, vol. 107, Gale, 2005. Gale Literature Resource Center,

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1420061336/GLS?u=viva2_vccs&sid=GLS&xid=9e9746e6. Accessed 1

Nov. 2020. Originally published in John Winthrop's World: History as a Story, the Story as History,

University of Wisconsin Press, 1992, pp. 121-129.

John Winthrop learned to see and to write history as a story, and many people feel that it is hard to read

and understand his story. His actions as governor have so overshadowed his work as a historian, and his

character and accomplishments have been so thoroughly incorporated into the pantheon of early New

England, that we cannot find direct access to the history he made. Winthrop stood foremost among the

first generation of American Puritans; hence whatever judgment one makes regarding the social

institutions and the cultural tradition these people established stands. The history of misreading’s of

Winthrop's journal is matched--curiously, if not symbolically, as the Puritans might have believed--by the

perils of the text itself. Winthrop wrote his history in three notebooks. The third volume was misplaced in

1755 and discovered sixty years later in the tower of Boston's Old South Church. Based off of this I feel it

could be a good citation but maybe not too much of informative. This leans towards how people

misinterpret his readings. 435

Edgar A. J. Johnson. “Economic Ideas of John Winthrop.” The New England Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, 1930, pp.

235–250. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/359696. Accessed 1 Nov. 2020.

The ideas in this source talk about John Winthrop’s economic ideas. There is indeed little that is original

in his economic thought. He views it as mainly a gift from God. He reflected his current beliefs of his age

reasonably well. He was not a political economist, but he was a political and religious leader. He

definitely stood for his religion like no other, it was the most important thing to him. Based off of his

economic standing is how he was blessed from God. Winthrop’s ideas were medieval, transmitted to him

chiefly through English ecclesiastical. Winthrop accepted the idea of a blissful state of primitive

communion which was presumed to have existed when men had everything in common. The fall of men

brought an end to this ideal communism. Possessed within economic motive, man seeks wealth. That

intemperance in the pursuit of riches injures public morals. This is a great way to show John Winthrop’s

economic look on things for sure. I’m not really sure how I could in cooperate this into my paper but it

would be good. 643

Michaelsen, Scott. "John Winthrop's 'Modell' Covenant and the Company Way." Literature Criticism

from 1400 to 1800, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg, vol. 107, Gale, 2005. Gale Literature

Resource Center, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1420061335/GLS?

u=viva2_vccs&sid=GLS&xid=e9e40909. Accessed 1 Nov. 2020. Originally published in Early

American Literature, vol. 27, no. 2, 1992, pp. 85-100.

In his reading, “A Modell” becomes a text more important for what it says about old England than new;

Delbanco sees it as a series of Puritan renunciations of former practice rather than a forward-looking

definition of an "errand into the wilderness," as Perry Miller's famous interpretation had it. Even so,

Winthrop's sermon still stands for Delbanco as a kind of boundary line separating one horizon of thought

from another. Its promises and warnings, its notions of community and awesome responsibility, become

somehow typical of the American mind in general. The question of Winthrop's representativeness, which

was debunked memorably by Darrett B. Rutman, becomes even more troublesome when one explores

more deeply Winthrop's "Modell" covenant and communitarian cast of mind through a reestablishment of

a specifically legal context for the sermon, both theoretical and practical. Winthrop's sermon not only

bears a significant relation to newly emerging theories of contract law and interpretation, but it reveals a

great deal about the actual legal conditions of the Puritan voyage to America. This is a very good source

for my paper but I mainly feel that the draft was definitely my favorite. 880

“Massachusetts Bay - ‘The City Upon a Hill.’” Ushistory.org, Independence Hall Association,

www.ushistory.org/us/3c.asp. 

The Arabella was one of eleven ships carrying over a thousand Puritans to Massachusetts that year. It was

the largest original venture ever attempted in the English New World. The passengers were determined to
be a beacon for the rest of Europe, "A Modell of Christian Charity," in the words of the governor. The

passengers of the Arabella who left England in 1630 with their new charter had a great vision. They were

to be an example for the rest of the world in rightful living. Future governor John Winthrop stated their

purpose quite clearly: "We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us." Based on this

reading I felt this was a very well reading. I really enjoyed them talking about the Massachusetts bay

colony, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this and think it can be a good part to my final essay. 1046