Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of “Intensity"
Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of “Intensity” Richard J. Ross 1 University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) College of Law and History Department [This article is a work-in-progress. I am particularly eager to receive feedback about what worked and did not work and about what needs further elaboration or could be cut. Please do not cite or quote from this essay without permission.] For comments and advice, the author would like to thank: Edward Balleisen, Charles Cohen, Philip Gorski, Hendrik Hartog, Peter Hoffer, Jacqueline Ross, Gary Rowe, Karl Shoemaker, Bruce Smith, Dalia Tsuk, and participants at panels and workshops at the Law and Society Association conference, the American Society for Legal History conference, the Triangle Legal History and Early American History seminars, and the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History. The Ross and Helen Workman Law Research Grant (of the University of Illinois College of Law) provided invaluable funding during the completion of this essay. I have modernized spelling and punctuation in quotations from primary sources.