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Common whores, vertuous women, and loveing wives : free will Christian women in colonial Maryland / Debra Meyers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meyers, Debra, 1956-
- Series:
- Religion in North America ; v. 31.
- Religion in North America ; v. 31
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Maryland--History.
- Women.
- Women and religion--Maryland--History.
- Women and religion.
- Maryland--History.
- Maryland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Common whores, virtuous women, and loving wives
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Religious conflicts had a pronounced effect on women and their families in early modern England, but our understanding of that impact is limited by the restrictions that prevented the open expression of religious beliefs in the post-Reformation years. More can be gleaned by shifting our focus to the New World, where gender relations and family formations were largely unhampered by the unsettling political and religious climate of England. In Maryland, English Arminian Catholics, Particular Baptists,
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Maryland's raison d'etre
- Private lives
- Religion in the new world
- Women and religion
- Religion, property, and the family
- Free will Christian women's public authority
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-07201-3
- 9786612072017
- 0-253-10177-8
- 0-253-10974-4
- OCLC:
- 53012228
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