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This is a really minor point, but it kind of stood out to me. Mintz and Kellogg discussed at one point the lack of a family life for some members of society, in particular servants, apprentices and university lecturers. Now, I can understand servants, but what was it about university lecturers that they were denied a spouse? It seems silly to me that they weren't allowed to begin their own family in a society that believed the family was the central unit. -Kelly W | This is a really minor point, but it kind of stood out to me. Mintz and Kellogg discussed at one point the lack of a family life for some members of society, in particular servants, apprentices and university lecturers. Now, I can understand servants, but what was it about university lecturers that they were denied a spouse? It seems silly to me that they weren't allowed to begin their own family in a society that believed the family was the central unit. -Kelly W | ||
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| + | The immediate need to remarry struck me as troublesome for the Puritan society, especially when considered in regards to the alarmingly high level of domestic violence at the time. I wonder what the rates of abuse were in the couples that were rushed into re-marriage in order to maintain status. Level of attraction and the sheer moral fiber of those involved were obviously ignored in these nuptials, and I have to wonder if the rate of abuse was actually HIGHER in second marriages than it may have been the first time around. -Cash Nelson | ||
== Chapter 2--Domestic Revolutions == | == Chapter 2--Domestic Revolutions == | ||
