Honors Senior Theses/Projects
Date of Award
6-1-2018
Type (DCMI Terms)
Text
Exit Requirement
Undergraduate Honors Thesis/Project
Department
Honors Program
Faculty Advisor
Elizabeth Swedo
Honors Program Director
Gavin Keulks
Language
eng
Abstract
During the decade of the 1650s, England had no King or Queen. Instead, an increasingly monarchical parliamentary system of government reigned. This government was controlled by Puritans, a hardline sect of Protestant Christianity. Although they were a religious minority and their laws relating to morality were unpopular, the Puritans pursued this policies with religious zeal linking seemingly innocuous activities, such as cock-fighting or a may-pole celebration with the supposed evils of Catholicism. Legal documents such as “March 1654: An Ordinance for prohibiting Cock-matches” and...
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Recommended Citation
Craig, Carter, "Religious Roots for the Puritan Morality Laws During the Interregnum" (2018). Honors Senior Theses/Projects. 157.
https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/honors_theses/157
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