Banishment, Jurisdiction, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New England: The Case of Roger Williams.

This essay rereads the works of Roger Williams that pertain to his banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in an effort to uncover not their much-examined religious perspective but their previously unnoticed common-law framework. In their rise to prominence in the early to mid-seventeenth centu...

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Publicado en:Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 109 - 140
Autor principal: GOODMAN, NAN
Formato: Essay
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Spring2009
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