The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England
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The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth-Century New England
The Puritans came to New England not merely to save their souls but to establish a "visible" kingdom of God, a society where outward conduct would be according to God's laws. This book discusses the desire of the Puritans to be socially virtuous and their wish to force social virtue upon others.
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