TY - BOOK AU - Konig,David Thomas TI - Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692 SN - 9780807863435 AV - KFM2999.E8.K66 1979 PY - 1978/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Essex County (Mass.)--History KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Author's Note -- 1. English Law and Puritan Society: The Legal and Social Foundations of Order, 1629-1640 -- 2. Real Property Litigation: The Social and Economic Backgrounds of Legal Change -- 3. Outsiders and Subgroups: The Coordinative Function of the Court -- 4. From Communalism to Litigation: The Elevation of Law and Legal Forms -- 5. The Court and the Community: Law in a Postrevolutionary Puritan Society -- 6. Challenges to the Law: The Conflict of Legal and Extralegal Methods of Social Control -- 7. Law, Magic, and Disorder: The Crisis of the Interregnum, 1684-1692 -- 8. Epilogue: A Contentious and Well-Ordered People -- Bibliography -- Index -- A-B -- C -- D -- E-G -- H-J -- K-L -- M-N -- O-R -- S -- T-W -- Y UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3039442 ER -