1st Edition
Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World Being “Much Afflicted with Conscience”
Introduction: The Verins--A Family "Much Afflicted with Conscience"
The Verins and Family History
The Many Puritanisms
A Note about Methodology
Women and the Historical Record in the Early Modern Era
Women’s Agency in the Early Modern Era
Part One: "Gone to New England for Conscience Sake": Family History as New England History
The Verins
Who Were the Puritans?
Patterns of English Migration
A New Community in Providence
The Proprietors
The Antinomians in Rhode Island
Disputes over Land
Post-Script
Part Two: "Piety Tempers Patriarchy": Women of Conscience in the English Atlantic World
Women and Puritanism
Answering Christ’s Call
On Marriage: Puritan Ministerial Literature
The Antinomian Crisis Continued
The Women of Providence
Making Sense of Women’s Experiences
Puritan Prescriptive Literature
Controlling Insubordinate Wives
Barren in Zion
In Women’s Voices
Family Violence in Early New England
Sectarian Groups and Women’s Religious Rights: The Baptists and Quakers
Women’s Spiritual Activism in the English Atlantic World
Pamphlet Culture in the 17th-Century Atlantic World
Part III: "Forced Worship Stinks in God’s Nostrils": Government, Law, and Liberty of Conscience in Puritan New England
The English Context
Puritan Women and English Law
Controlling Insubordinate Wives
On Liberty of Conscience and Forced Conformity
Massachusetts Body of Liberties
The Issues in Transatlantic Context
On John Locke
Conclusion: Women of Obstinate Faith
Works Cited
Index
Biography
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.
