Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative

Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-256

  Silva, Cristobal ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anne Hutchinson; Antinomian controversy; Cotton mather; Epidemiology; Halfway covenant; Inoculation controversy; John Winthrop; Justification narratives; New England; Smallpox

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885614811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743476.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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