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Paperback Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699 Book

ISBN: 0870236563

ISBN13: 9780870236563

Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699

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"Thompson analyzes the court records of 17th century Middlesex County, searching for such sexually related crimes as fornication, breach of promise, sexual deviancy, and adultery. His findings help shatter the traditional historical caricature of New England Puritans as patriarchal, dour wife-beaters and child-abusers, a myth eloquently created by Perry Miller and most recently reinforced by Lawrence Stone. In the court records Thompson discovers...

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