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Puritanism:: 1. Who Were The Puritans and What Was Puritanism?
Puritanism:: 1. Who Were The Puritans and What Was Puritanism?
Puritanism:: 1. Who Were The Puritans and What Was Puritanism?
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PURITANISM:
1. Who were the puritans and what was puritanism?
Puritanism was a religious movement that started in the late 16 th and 17th centuries,
when Elisabeth I was the queen of England.
It was formed by some Christians who decided to divided from the Church of England
because they thought there were still catholic practices, which were not within their
principles.
2. Important puritans:
There were a lot of important puritans, but the most famous were Peter Bulkeley, John
Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet and Anne Hutchinson.
5. Women:
In Victorian society puritan women had different and important roles like tending their
vegetables garden, were responsible for caring their husbands, guiding the next
generation of Puritan children…
As well they had some limitations written in a book like for example:
- They weren’t allowed to vote in the General Court.
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- They were also restricted from buying and selling any piece of land, they only
do it men.
- And they couldn’t sue in a court of law, they couldn’t accuse anyone or plead
guilty of something they committed.
All these limitations happened because men thought that women were to important,
indispensable in their lives but at the same time they were culturally inferior than
them.
If the woman was married, she had to follow his husband, but if she was unmarried se
had to follow his father.