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Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

Elizabeth Reis

Following the Salem witchcraft trials, Reis argues, Puritans' understanding of sin and the devil changed.
Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America

Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America

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Elizabeth Reis's essay addresses one of the more perplexing problems of the Salem trials: Why would a woman confess to signing the devil's book in blood, thus giving the devil permission to use her shape to afflict others? Reis argues that ...
Religions of the United States in Practice

Religions of the United States in Practice

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Vision. Stories. Elizabeth Reis During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, most African American slaves who turned to Christianity embraced Protestantism, often becoming Baptists and Methodists. In the midst of the bondage of slavery, ...
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography

Paul Douglass

I am indebted to Catriona Mills for insights into Lady Caroline's composition of the preface to Ada Reis. See “The Disappearing Author in Lady Caroline Lamb's Ada Reis,” paper delivered at the Work in Progress Conference, University of ...
The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History

The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History

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Taking up this important trend, American religious historians Amanda Porterfield, Elizabeth Reis, and Susan Juster shifted scholarly attention to the gendered language employed in colonial and revolutionary America in the construction of ...
Witches of the Atlantic World: An Historical Reader and ...

Witches of the Atlantic World: An Historical Reader and ...

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The historian Elizabeth Reis is the author of Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England (1997) and has edited Spellbound: Woman and Witchcraft in America (1998), an anthology of witchcraft articles that focus on the ...
Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England

Dissenting Bodies: Corporealities in Early New England

Martha L. Finch

... yeoman farmers' use of the human body as a model for house architecture; Jane Kamensky on the tongue; Richard Godbeer on sex, hair, and periwigs; Elizabeth Reis on beliefs about female bodies that contributed to witchcraft accusations; ...
Women in Early America

Women in Early America

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Witchcraft and Patriarchy in Colonial North America Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis In early America, witchcraft was a serious matter. The Connecticut statute of 1642 conventionally designated it as a capital crime—defined in part by the ...
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

Elizabeth Reis

I would also like to thank audiences and panelists at the Kinsey Institute Conference, the American Association for the History of Medicine, the Western Association of Women Historians, and the Organization of American Historians Meeting as ...
Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the General ...

Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the General ...

Missouri. General Assembly

1910 January 4 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary February 1 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary March 1 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary April 2 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary May 2 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary May 31 — Elizabeth Fulton, salary July 1 — Elizabeth ...
Under a Silent Moon

Under a Silent Moon

Elizabeth Haynes

Elizabeth Haynes. Elizabeth Haynes worked for many years as a police analyst. Her debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, won Amazon's Book of the Year in 2011 and Amazon's Rising Star Award for debut novels. Elizabeth grew up in Sussex ...
I Remember Well...

I Remember Well...

Elizabeth Donaldson

Memoirs of Elizabeth Donaldson, compiled by her son Ian and based on notes made by Elizabeth.
Elizabeth I and Ireland

Elizabeth I and Ireland

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... Elizabeth was able to turn her gender to advantage in manoeuvring through the male-dominated world of high politics.5 Natalie Mears's more recent work on Elizabeth and queenship has tacked differently in pursuit of monarchical authority .
Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and ...

Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and ...

Ronald H. Fritze

One of those people was Charles H. Hapgood, who advocated his own form of catastrophism and also managed to make his own enduring addition to the cultic milieu of pseudohistory: the Piri Reis map as a mysterious artefact of the past.
Stitches in Time

Stitches in Time

Elizabeth Donaldson

Elizabeth Donaldson. Stitches In Time Copyright © 2012 by Elizabeth Donaldson First Edition –September 2012. A Collection by Elizabeth Donaldson Axel Anderson Sowing Wood wlTh Eric. EllZobeTh ls ln bdckground.
Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth: The Biography of Elizabeth Taylor

J. Randy Taraborrelli

This moving book traces for the first time Elizabeth's journey through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in the 1960s and 1970s, a time during which alcohol and drugs played a major part in her life.
BodyGuard:

BodyGuard:

Jennifer Ashley

Having grown up in foster care, Elizabeth can only admire how protective Ronan is. But Ronan will only let Elizabeth leave the confines of Shiftertown if he becomes her 24/7 bodyguard. Elizabeth chafes at the restriction, but agrees.
Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in ...

Elizabeth Murray: A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in ...

Patricia Cleary

28 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to [Mrs. Rowe], 24 April 1770. 29 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to Mrs. Dehlois, 1 3 April 1 770, JMR. 30 Elizabeth [Murray] Smith to unknown. [Fehruary 1770], JMR. 31 Elizabeth (Murray Smith to James Murray, ...
Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

Becoming Elizabeth Lawrence

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Emily Herring Wilson. Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence — A Friendship in Letters No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence North Carolina Women: Making History (co-authored with Margaret Supplee ...
Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the ...

Turn Away Thy Son: Little Rock, the Crisis That Shocked the ...

Elizabeth Jacoway

Her employer was Dr. Joseph Buchman; Elizabeth Eckford interview with Elizabeth Jacoway,Aug. 14, 2003, p.38, EJC. Eckford interview with Jacoway, Aug. 14, 2003, p. 26; Ted Pos- ton,“Nine Kids Who Dared: Elizabeth Ann Eckford, ” Oct. 23, ...
Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology

Interconnecting Translation Studies and Imagology

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Festschrift für Katharina Reiß zum 70. Geburtstag, ed. by Justa Holz-Mänttäri, and Christiane Nord, 395–416. Tampere: Universität Tampere. O'Sullivan, Emer. 2000. Kinderliterarische Komparatistik. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter.
Tribute: Elizabeth Taylor: Elizabeth Taylor

Tribute: Elizabeth Taylor: Elizabeth Taylor

Dina Gachman

Some say Elizabeth Taylor was the last great movie star.
The Burgess Boys: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout ...

The Burgess Boys: A Novel By Elizabeth Strout ...

Trivion Books

Trivion Books. a. b. c. d. Question #1 Professor Doctor Painter Actor a. ANSWER a Professor Author Elizabeth Strout's father was a. What was Elizabeth Strout's father's profession? Where was Elizabeth Strout born?
David ontdekt de wereld

David ontdekt de wereld

Anne Holm

Zonder dat hij het doel van zijn tocht kent, maakt een jongen die altijd in een kamp heeft geleefd een lange en moeilijke reis dwars door Europa.
Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern ...

Treacherous Faith: The Specter of Heresy in Early Modern ...

David Loewenstein

437m 1 Gifford, George (cont.) A Short Reply 391m47; 51; 58, 392né6. and Elizabeth Evenden, “Print, Profit and Propaganda...” 379m3 and Sarah Elizabeth Wall, “Racking the Body...” 378m144 and Elizabeth Evenden, Religion and the Book.
Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of ...

Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of ...

Elizabeth Pérez

Palmié, Stephan, and Elizabeth Pérez. “An All Too Present Absence: Fernando Ortiz's Work on [the Afro-Cuban secret society] Abakuá in Its Sociocultural Context.” New West Indian Guide 79, nos. 3–4 (2005): 219–28. Pérez, Elizabeth.
Authority and Society in Nantes during the French Wars of ...

Authority and Society in Nantes during the French Wars of ...

Elizabeth C. Tingle

Copyright © Elizabeth C. Tingle 2006 The right of Elizabeth C. Tingle to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by Manchester University ...
Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective

Elizabeth I: A Feminist Perspective

Susan Bassnett

However, among the many books written about Elizabeth I there is none like this one: Bassnett looks at the life and achievements of Elizabeth from a twentieth-century feminist perspective and considers her as writer, politician, scholar and ...
Risco Ergonômico do Trabalho Repetitivo:

Risco Ergonômico do Trabalho Repetitivo:

Pedro Ferreira Reis

Este livro tem como foco a pesquisa e análise do ambiente real de trabalho e proposta de novos indicadores físicos, na forma de procedimentos técnicos com o uso da força de preensão manual e da estesiometria da mão para o rastreamento ...

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