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The Criminal Trial of Anne Hutchinson: Ritual, Religion, and Law
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 49, Number 2, June 2016
- pp. 149-166
- 10.1353/mos.2016.a621133
- Article
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I explore the ways in which Anne Hutchinson invalidated her criminal trial in seventeenth-century Massachusetts as she challenged the judicial process by showing that, instead of adhering strictly to the law, the magistrates depended on ritual to find her guilty.