Review: Dayton, Cornelia H. “Was There A Calvinist Type Of Patriarchy?
Review
Dayton, Cornelia H. “Was There a Calvinist Type of Patriarchy?
New Haven Colony Reconsidered in the Early Modern Context”
in Tomlins, Christopher L. and Mann, Bruce H. (eds)
The Many Legalities Of Early America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina P, 2000.
pp. 337-356
Cornelia Hughes Dayton, the author of Was There a Calvinist Type of Patriarchy?
New Haven Colony Reconsidered in the Early Modern Context, is a member of the history department at the University of Connecticut. In the essay, Dayton investigates how certain elements of the Calvinist reforms was adopted in the courtrooms of New Haven Colony – which later merged into Connecticut –, under the leadership of Theophilus Eaton and John Davenport, concerning its effects on gender relationships.
Dayton draws a parallel between Calvinist Geneva in the sixteenth century and the one century later existing New Haven Colony: “New Haven Colony can legitimately be seen as one of many......
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