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A223 TMA01 What can Historians learn from this document about how as married man saw his role as head of the family in mid-17th century? The nature of this document is taken from the notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington (1818-1654). â€Å"An extract of the passages of my life’ (Booy, D. (end) 2007), written in 1662. The extract is one of over fifty journals written over a twenty years period, of which seven originals remain. The purpose of this document is described in Grell (2016 p.81) as a means of private and later public record relating of Wallington’s reflections of his religious struggle for salvation as a sinner that believes he belongs to the â€Å"Elect†, those predestined for salvation. This autobiographical work provided historians with primary source of evidence of the thoughts and beliefs of a Puritan married man, and his religious responsibilities and relationship with his household. To contextualize the text, Wallington’s religious beliefs were taken from Protestant Lutheran and Calvinistic influences that evolved in England as the Puritan movement, which was a non-conformist religious sects that had moved away from the Church of England ‘Anglican’ practices and rituals in search a purer, form of Protestantism. (Marshall, P. 2014 p.141). Lutheranism had idealized marriage and the idea of â€Å"holy families’ and Luther stated in â€Å"The estate of marriage† Brandt (1963) that â€Å"woman is a necessary evil, and that no household can be without such an evil †. WallingtonShow MoreRelatedFeminine Mystique12173 Words   |  49 PagesSupplemental Reading for US History 2 From Rosie to Lucy Questions students must answer in a 500-word (minimum) essay: 1) Describe the post-WWII frustrations felt by women such as Betty Friedan. 2) During the era of â€Å"Rosie the Riveter†, what gains did women make in the workforce? 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