Puritans and Revolutionaries
Author | : Christopher Hill |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher Hill |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Coffey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2008-10-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1139827820 |
'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface. The book explores issues of gender, literature, politics and popular culture in addition to addressing the Puritans' core concerns such as theology and devotional praxis, and coverage extends to Irish, Welsh, Scottish and European versions of Puritanism as well as to English and American practice. It challenges readers to re-evaluate this crucial tradition within its wider social, cultural, political and religious contexts.
Author | : Christopher Hill |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2018-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786636212 |
How Puritanism made modern Britain In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War, it is essential to get a grasp on the nature of Puritanism. In this classic work of social history, Christopher Hill reveals Puritanism as a living faith, one responding to social as well as religious needs. It was a set of beliefs that answered the hopes and fears of yeomen and gentlemen, as well as merchants and artisans, in a time of tribulation and extraordinary turbulence. Over this period, Puritanism was interwoven into daily life. Here Hill looks at how rituals and practices such as oath-taking, the Sabbath, bawdy courts, and poor relief offered a way to bring order to social upheaval. He even offers an explanation for the emergence of the seemingly paradoxical figure of the age—the Puritan revolutionary.
Author | : Michael Laban Walzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1963 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : William Haller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1955 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Walzer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674767867 |
The Revolution of the Saints is a study, both historical and sociological, of the radical political response of the Puritans to disorder. It interprets and analyzes Calvinism as the first modern expression of an unremitting determination to transform on the basis of an ideology the existing political and moral order. Michael Walzer examines in detail the circumstances and ideological options of the Puritan intelligentsia and gentry. He sees Puritanism, in sharp contrast to some generally accepted views, as the political theory of intellectuals and gentlemen attempting to create a new government and society.
Author | : A.L. Rowse |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2023-04-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 100087026X |
Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous artistic losses England suffered from their activities. The Puritans smashed stained glass, monuments, sculpture, brasses in cathedrals and churches; they destroyed organs, dispersed the choirs and the music. They sold the King’s art collections, pictures, statues, plate, gems and jewels abroad, and broke up the Coronation regalia. They closed down the theatres and ended Caroline poetry. The greatest composer and most promising scientist of the age were among the many lives lost; and this all besides the ruin of palaces, castles and mansions.
Author | : Patrick Collinson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000223450 |
Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions; of the quest for ‘a further reformation’. It tells the fascinating story of the rise of a revolutionary moment and its ultimate destruction.
Author | : Stuart E. Prall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2020-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000225550 |
Originally published in 1968, the documents collected in this volume (all re-set for ease of reading), trace the history of the Puritan Revolution from its roots in the early seventeenth century to the Restoration. They show how the causes and the course of the upheaval were reflected immediately and polemically in the torrent of books, tracts and pamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, petitions, paper constitutions and government instruments that accompanied and often precipitated events. The documents substantiate the conviction of many scholars that the English Revolution represented a shaking of society comparable to the French and Russian revolutions. The Introduction discusses the work of historians of modern-day historians of the period and contributes to the debate about the underlying causes of the crisis.
Author | : Margaret James |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000208400 |
Originally published in 1930 and reprinted in 1966 this book focusses on the social and economic developments of the Puritan revolution – aspects which are often overlooked in favour of the political. Using archival resources, this study shows that the period 1640-1660 was one of change and experiment in the social as well as political sphere. Particular focus is given to the depression in industry and agriculture and the resultant increase in poverty and unemployment. The extent to which the traditional authority of church and state was weakened, is also discussed.