Religious conflicts had a pronounced effect on women and their families                  in early modern England, but our understanding of that impact is limited by the                  restrictions that prevented the open expression of religious beliefs in the                  post-Reformation years. More can be gleaned by shifting our focus to the New World,                  where gender relations and family formations were largely unhampered by the                  unsettling political and religious climate of England. In Maryland, English Arminian                  Catholics, Particular Baptists, Presbyterians, Puritans, Quakers, and Roman                  Catholics lived and worked together for most of the 17th century. By closely                  examining thousands of wills and other personal documents, as well as early                  Maryland's material culture, this transatlantic study depicts women's place in                  society and the ways religious values and social arrangements shaped their lives.                  Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives takes a revisionist approach to the                  study of women and religion in colonial Maryland and adds considerably to our                  understanding of the social and cultural importance of religion in early                  America.

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