In Nan Goodman’s book, The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination, she traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and ...

The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early ...

The Law School has added a documentary land-mark in American history--the first death-sentence laws of the Puritans, based on Old Testament texts--to its Treasure Room collection of rare American ...

In early New England, religion wasn’t just a belief system—it was the foundation of laws, culture, and community life. Puritan ideals shaped governance, daily routines, and even commerce, while ...

BETHESDA, Md. -- Just in time for Eastertide, George Fox University Professor Mark David Hall has written a book that portrays Puritans as champions of literacy, defenders of due process, enemies of ...

What do Islamic sharia law and the colonial Massachusetts’ Puritan experiment have in common? But it’s also, according to Berger, “a code of conduct for all events, walks and way of life. It deals ...

Local legislators caught in a budget pinch? The answer isn't an override. All that's needed is a little creative law enforcement. For a start, there's this little "blue" gem from the 17th century: ...

BOTH the contemporary and the historical Puritan are still involved in clouds of libel, of which the origins lie in the copious fountains of indiscriminating abuse poured out upon the Puritans of the ...

What do Islamic “sharia” law and the colonial Massachusetts’ Puritan experiment have in common? But it’s also, according to Berger, “a code of conduct for all events, walks and way of life. It deals ...