The times and trials of Anne Hutchinson : Puritans divided / Michael P. Winship.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winship, Michael P. (Michael Paul)

Series:

Landmark law cases & American society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hutchinson, Anne, 1591-1643.

Hutchinson, Anne.

Puritans--Massachusetts--History--17th century.

Puritans.

Church history.

Congregational churches.

History.

Massachusetts.

Congregational churches--Massachusetts--History--17th century.

Antinomianism.

Massachusetts--Church history--17th century.

Massachusetts--Religious life and customs.

Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

xi, 168 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2005]

Summary:

Anne Hutchinson was perhaps the most famous English-woman in colonial American history, viewed in later centuries as a crusader for religious liberty and a prototypical feminist. Michael Winship, author of the highly acclaimed Making Heretics, provides a startlingly new and fresh account of her oft-told tale, disentangling what really happened from the legends that have misrepresented her for so long. As Winship shows, although the trials of Anne Hutchinson and her allies were used ostensibly to protect Massachusetts' Christian society, they instead nearly tore it apart. His book brings puritan doctrine back into focus, giving us a much closer and more informed look at a society marked by religious intolerance and immoderation, one that still echoes in our own times.

Contents:

The making of a prophet

Disciplinarians : Massachusetts, 1630-1636

Secret quarrels : spring-fall 1636

AntiChristian spirits and soul robbers : fall-winter, 1636-1637

A combustion in the Commonwealth : spring 1637

The churches on fire : summer 1637

Bottomless revelations : fall 1637

A notorious imposter : winter 1637-1638

All one Indian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-161) and index.

ISBN:

070061379X

0700613803

OCLC:

56880090