Download or read book The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth century Massachusetts written by Emily C. K. Romeo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dismantling the image of the peaceful and serene colonial goodwife and countering the assumption that New England was inherently less violent than other regions of colonial America, Emily C. K. Romeo offers a revealing look at acts of violence by Anglo-American women in colonial Massachusetts, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Using Essex County as a case study, Romeo deftly utilizes seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources to demonstrate that Puritan women, both "virtuous" and otherwise, learned to negotiate the shifting boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable violence in their daily lives and communities. The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts shows that more dramatic violence by women -- including infanticide, the scalping of captors during the Indian Wars, and even witchcraft accusations -- was not necessarily intended to challenge the structures of authority but often sprung from women's desire to protect property, safety, and standing for themselves and their families. The situations in which women chose to flout powerful social conventions and resort to overt violence expose the underlying, often unspoken, priorities and gendered expectations that shaped this society.

Download or read book Order in the Household written by Patricia Mayr and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Skillful Women and Jurymen written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Four Women in a Violent Time written by Deborah Crawford and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the lives of four women who struggled for civil rights and justice in seventeenth-century America.

Download or read book Conflict in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts written by Robert Bancker Gamble and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rape in Seventeenth century Massachusetts written by Catherine S. Baker. and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Witchcraft Magic and Religion in 17th century Massachusetts written by Richard Weisman and published by Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the social processes underlying support and resistance to collective action against witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts; providing theological interpretations of witchcraft, focusing on the relationship between witchcraft and magic, and considering the interrelationships between the two.

Download or read book Skillful Women and Jurymen written by Edith Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Witch Accusations in Seventeenth Century New England U S written by Richard Godbeer and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document collection explores why people living in the seventeenth century thought it reasonable to believe in witches and to accuse people of using witchcraft against their enemies. This requires students to set aside their own assumptions and reconstruct the premodern world that New England settlers inhabited through the analysis of primary sources. Students are guided through their analysis of the primary sources with an author-provided learning objective, central question, and historical context.

Download or read book Science and Justice written by Sanford J. Fox and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1968. Far from being an isolated outburst of community insanity or hysteria, the Massachusetts witchcraft trials were an accurate reflection of the scientific ethos of the seventeenth century. Witches were seldom hanged without supporting medical evidence. Professor Fox clarifies this use of scientific knowledge by examining the Scientific Revolution's impact on the witchcraft trials. He suggests that much of the scientific ineptitude and lack of sophistication that characterized the witchcraft cases is still present in our modern system of justice. In the historical context of seventeenth-century witch hunts and in an effort to stimulate those who must design and operate a just jurisprudence today, Fox asks what the proper legal role of medical science—especially psychiatry—should be in any society. The legal system of seventeenth-century Massachusetts was weakened by an uncritical reliance on scientific judgments, and the scientific assumptions upon which the colonial conception of witchcraft was based reinforced these doubtful judgments. Fox explores these assumptions, discusses the actual participation of scientists in the investigations, and indicates the importance of scientific attitudes in the trials. Disease theory, psychopathology, and autopsy procedures, he finds, all had their place in the identification of witches. The book presents a unique multidisciplinary investigation into the place of science in the life of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century. There, as in twentieth-century America, citizens were confronted with the necessity of accommodating both the rules of law and the facts of science to their system of justice.

Download or read book Leaves from Margaret Smith s Journal in the Province of Massachusetts Bay 1678 9 written by John Greenleaf Whittier and published by Boston, Ticknor, Reed & Fields. This book was released on 1849 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal look into the life of a Massachusetts woman in the 17th century reveals the tremendous demands of domestic work and the large role religion played in her life.

Download or read book Witchcraft in Seventeenth century Massachusetts written by Richard Mark Weisman and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Witch and the Heretic written by Lynne Gerber and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Response to the Poor in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts written by Elizabeth Werthan and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Over reaction Period in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts written by Mark Owen Quam and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Expressions of Female Autonomy in Seventeenth Century New England written by Tammy Kae Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Under Household Government written by M. Michelle Jarrett Morris and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Puritans were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many early American historians would have us believe. Keeping their own households in line occupied too much of their time. Under Household Government reveals that family members took on the role of watchdogs in matters of sexual indiscretion.