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

• Autore: Meyers Debra <1956->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington ; ; Indianapolis, : Indiana University Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/09752
• Soggetto topico: Women - Maryland - History; Women and religion - Maryland - History
• Soggetto geografico: Maryland History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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,
• Altri titoli varianti: Common whores, virtuous women, and loving wives
• Titolo autorizzato: Common whores, vertuous women, and loveing wives
• ISBN: 1-282-07201-3; 9786612072017; 0-253-10177-8; 0-253-10974-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455761703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Religion in North America ; ; v. 31.