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Women and the Crusades. Oxford University Press. Poor, Sara, and Jana Schulman, eds. Women and the Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity (Springer, 2016). Riley-Smith, Jonathan (1998). The First Crusaders, 1095–1131. Cambridge University Press. Riley-Smith, Jonathan, et al. A Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land ...
The experience of women in early New England differed greatly and depended on one's social group acquired at birth. Puritans , Native Americans , and people coming from the Caribbean and across the Atlantic were the three largest groups in the region, the latter of these being smaller in proportion to the first two.
Moody allowed total religious freedom in Gravesend, as long as it fell within the laws of the colony. As Gravesend prospered, Moody gained influence in the government of New Netherland. She was among the few prominent settlers invited to greet the new Director-General, Peter Stuyvesant, when he arrived in 1647. Stuyvesant called on her to ...
In 1617, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland created a settlement at present-day Albany, and in 1624 founded New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island.The Dutch colony included claims to an area comprising all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine in addition to eastern ...
The main task of the Daughters of Liberty was to protest the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts through aiding the Sons of Liberty in boycotts and support movements prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. The Daughters of Liberty participated in spinning bees, helping to produce homespun cloth for colonists to wear instead of British textiles ...
The English had renamed the colony the Province of New York, after the king's brother James, Duke of York and on June 12, 1665, appointed Thomas Willett the first of the Mayors of New York. The city grew northward and remained the largest and most important city in the Province of New York, becoming the third largest in the British Empire after ...
Forty years after William Pynchon’s books were burned in Boston, the nearby Salem witch trials exploded, with the state murdering 14 women and five men and tormenting nearly 200 others for ...
Print advertising the riches of New Amsterdam, c. 1642 Dorothy Creole was one of the first African women to arrive in New York. She arrived in 1627. [1] That year, three enslaved African women set foot on the southern shore of Manhattan, arriving in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam). [2]