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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780261903321

Autore

Meyers Debra <1956->

Titolo

Common whores, vertuous women, and loveing wives [[electronic resource] ] : free will Christian women in colonial Maryland / / Debra Meyers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington ; ; Indianapolis, : Indiana University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-07201-3

9786612072017

0-253-10177-8

0-253-10974-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

Religion in North America ; ; v. 31

Disciplina

305.4/09752

Soggetti

Women - Maryland - History

Women and religion - Maryland - History

Maryland History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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,