David D. Hall
Autor de Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Sobre El Autor
David D. Hall is professor emeritus of American religious history at Harvard Divinity School. His books include A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England.
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) The books on religious history and the books on the history of books are by the same person.
Créditos de la imagen: HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL
Obras de David D. Hall
A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England (2011) 122 copias
A History of the Book in America, Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World (2007) — Editor — 81 copias
The faithful shepherd; a history of the New England ministry in the seventeenth century (1972) 54 copias
Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England (Material Texts) (2008) 19 copias
Obras relacionadas
Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era (1983) — Contribuidor — 108 copias
Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England (2004) — Editor — 13 copias
To Be Learned is Good: Essays on Faith and Scholarship in Honor of Richard Lyman Bushman (2018) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
The World of John Winthrop: England and New England, 1588-1649 (Massachusetts Historical Society Studies in American… (2006) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
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- USA
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- Harvard University (AB)
Yale University (PhD) - Ocupaciones
- historian (culture)
professor (college) - Aviso de desambiguación
- The books on religious history and the books on the history of books are by the same person.
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Did you know that there were SEVERAL witch trials in New England long before Salem? That the Salem Witch Trials were not the largest, but rather it was the Hartford Trials in Connecticut? That the punishment could be whipping, banishment, hanging OR house arrest?There's around 30 cases included before Salem in 1692.
The first person to be executed in New England was Alice Young in Hartford, Connecticut. The majority of these cases were petty squabbles between neighbors. It's never JUST "witchcraft" obviously, there's always an underlying behavioral or societal reason for it. Women accused women, men accused men, but some cases were originally defamation suits, which evolved into a full witchcraft trial.
We learn that Widow Marshfield of Springfield won her suit, as did Mary Staples in Fairfield and Jane Waldord in Portsmouth. Nicholas Bayley and his wife were banished for sowing discord and gossiping, and Alice Lake was hanged for infanticide. Some cases include the classic shapeshifting, animal familiars and witches marks, but not all. Mary Parsons of Northampton was suspected of all three, and yet was acquitted. John Bradstreet was whipped for bragging about his magical powers and John Godfrey was loathed by everyon The oddest case though was Lydia Gilbert of Windsor. She was accused of causing the accidental gunshot wound that killed Henry Stiles, three years after the fact. She was hanged in 1654. The Greensmiths of the Hartford Trials were even forced to undergo the infamous swimming test! Evidence ranges from invisible dogs, to spoiled milk or cheese, poltergeist activity, shapeshifting,apparitions, paralyzing victims, visions of birds, bees and bears, cats climbing up the walls, pinching and difficult labor.
However, this book did not include accusations of witchcraft against those of other religious sects. Quakers were loathed by Puritans, and were hunted down and hanged. Also, any reference to Native American religious practices needed more thorough notation/explanation, etc. Still a great resource for any paper or writing project.… (más)