Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World Being “Much Afflicted with Conscience” Microhistories Series
Auteur : Manchester Margaret
Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family and community life during the "Great Migration" through themicrohistorical study of one puritan family in 1638 Rhode Island.
Through studying the Verin family, a group of English non-conformists who took part in the "Great Migration", this book examines differing approaches within puritanism towards critical issues of the age, including liberty of conscience, marriage, family, female agency, domestic violence, and the role of civil government in responding to these developments. Like other nonconformists who challenged the established Church of England, the Verins faced important personal dilemmas brought on by the dictates of their conscience even after emigrating. A violent marital dispute between Jane and her husband Joshua divided the Providence community and resulted, for the first time in the English-speaking colonies, in a woman?s right to a liberty of conscience independent of her husband being upheld. Through biographical sketches of the founders of Providence and engaging with puritan ministerial and prescriptive literature and female-authored petitions and pamphlets, this book illustrates how women saw their place in the world and considers the exercise of female agency in the early modern era.
Connecting migration studies, family and community studies, religious studies, and political philosophy, Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World will be of great interest to scholars of the English Atlantic World, American religious history, gender and violence, the history of New England, and the history of family.
Introduction: The Verins--A Family "Much Afflicted with Conscience"; Chapter 1: "Gone to New England for Conscience Sake": Family History as New England History; Chapter 2: "Piety Tempers Patriarchy": Women of Conscience in the English Atlantic World; Chapter 3: "Forced Worship Stinks in God’s Nostrils": Government, Law, and Liberty of Conscience in Puritan New England; Conclusion: Women of Obstinate Faith
Margaret Murányi Manchester is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Providence College, USA. She teaches courses on US history, American women’s history, and diplomatic history. Her current research revisits a spy story involving in Cold War Hungary.
Date de parution : 06-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 06-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Young Men; Free Holders; Magnalia Christi Americana; English Atlantic World; Massachusetts Bay; Bloudy Tenent; Circuit Court; Colony’s History; Antinomian Crisis; Women’s Religious Activism; Massachusetts Bay Colony; Visible Saints; Antinomian Controversy; Concerted Effort; Colonial Rhode Island; Microhistorical Study; Male Decision Makers; Puritan Women; Calvinist Faith; Husband’s Authority; Puritan Ministers