The Culture Of English Puritanism 1560 1700

Author : Christopher Durston,Jacqueline Eales
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349244379

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The Culture of English Puritanism 1560-1700 by Christopher Durston,Jacqueline Eales Pdf

The Culture of English Puritanism is a major contribution to the debate on the nature and extent of early modern Puritanism. In their introduction the editors provide an up-to-date survey of the long-standing debate on Puritanism, before proceeding to outline their own definition of the movement. They argue that Puritanism should be defined as a unique and vibrant religious culture, which was grounded in a distinctive psychological outlook and which manifested itself in a set of highly characteristic religious practices. In the subsequent essays, a distinguished group of contributors consider in detail some of the most important aspects of this culture, in particular sermon-gadding, collective fasting, strict observance of Sunday, iconoclasm, and puritan attempts to reform alternative popular culture of their ungodly neighbours. Other contributions chart the channels through which puritan culture was sustained in the 80-year period proceding the English Civil War, the failure of attempts by the puritan government of Interregnum England to impose this puritan culture on the English people, the subsequent emergence of Dissent after 1600.

Author : Jacqueline Eales,Christopher Durston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641493200

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The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700 by Jacqueline Eales,Christopher Durston Pdf

Author : Stephen Foster
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838266

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The Long Argument by Stephen Foster Pdf

In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, Foster addresses parallel developments on both sides of the Atlantic and firmly embeds New England Puritanism within its English context. He provides not only an elaborate critque of current interpretations of Puritan ideology but also an original and insightful portrayal of its dynamism. According to Foster, Puritanism represented a loose and incomplete alliance of progressive Protestants, lay and clerical, aristocratic and humble, who never decided whether they were the vanguard or the remnant. Indeed, in Foster's analysis, changes in New England Puritanism after the first decades of settlement did not indicate secularization and decline but instead were part of a pattern of change, conflict, and accomodation that had begun in England. He views the Puritans' own claims of declension as partisan propositions in an internal controversy as old as the Puritan movement itself. The result of these stresses and adaptations, he argues, was continued vitality in American Puritanism during the second half of the seventeenth century. Foster draws insights from a broad range of souces in England and America, including sermons, diaries, spiritual autobiographies, and colony, town, and court records. Moreover, his presentation of the history of the English and American Puritan movements in tandem brings out the fatal flaws of the former as well as the modest but essential strengths of the latter.

Author : Francis J. Bremer,Tom Webster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781576076798

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Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America [2 volumes] by Francis J. Bremer,Tom Webster Pdf

This exhaustive treatment of the Puritan movement covers its doctrines, its people, its effects on politics and culture, and its enduring legacy in modern Britain and America. Puritanism began in the 1530s as a reform movement within the Church of England. It endured into the 18th century. In between, it powerfully influenced the course of political events both in Britain and in the United States. Puritanism shaped the American colonies, particularly New England. It was a key ingredient in literature, from authors as diverse as John Milton and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Although Puritanism as a formal movement has been gone for more than 300 years, its influence continues on the mores and norms of America and Britain. This ambitious work contains nearly 700 entries covering people, events, ideas, and doctrines—the whole of Puritanism. Exhaustive and authoritative, it draws on the work of more than 80 leading scholars in the field. Impeccable scholarship combines with eminent readability to make this a valuable work for all readers and researchers from secondary school up.

Author : J. Harris,E. Scott-Baumann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230289727

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The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 by J. Harris,E. Scott-Baumann Pdf

This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing.

Author : Susan Doran,Christopher Durston
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0415205786

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Princes, Pastors, and People by Susan Doran,Christopher Durston Pdf

Tracing the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book explains the major historical controversies surrounding the period.

Author : Peter Lake,Michael C. Questier
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0851157971

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Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, C. 1560-1660 by Peter Lake,Michael C. Questier Pdf

The first general study of different attitudes to conformity and the political and cultural significance of the resulting consensus on what came to be regarded as orthodox.

Author : Andrew Hiscock,Helen Wilcox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191653421

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion by Andrew Hiscock,Helen Wilcox Pdf

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early modern religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eternity. The Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.

Author : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0874138175

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Puritanism and Its Discontents by Laura Lunger Knoppers Pdf

By tracing core discontents, the essays restore the anxiety-ridden radical nature of Puritanism, helping to account for its force in the seventeenth century and the popular and scholarly interest that it continues to evoke. Innovative and challenging in scope and argument, the volume should be of interest to scholars of early modern British and American history, literature, culture, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Baird Tipson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190212537

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Hartford Puritanism by Baird Tipson Pdf

Statues of Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone grace downtown Hartford, Connecticut, but few residents are aware of the distinctive version of Puritanism that these founding ministers of Harford's First Church carried into to the Connecticut wilderness (or indeed that the city takes its name from Stone's English birthplace). Shaped by interpretations of the writings of Saint Augustine largely developed during the ministers' years at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Hartford's church order diverged in significant ways from its counterpart in the churches of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hartford Puritanism argues for a new paradigm of New England Puritanism. Hartford's founding ministers, Baird Tipson shows, both fully embraced - and even harshened - Calvin's double predestination. Tipson explores the contributions of the lesser-known William Perkins, Alexander Richardson, and John Rogers to Thomas Hooker's thought and practice: the art and content of his preaching, as well as his determination to define and impose a distinctive notion of conversion on his hearers. The book draws heavily on Samuel Stone's The Whole Body of Divinity, a comprehensive exposition of his thought and the first systematic theology written in the American colonies. Virtually unknown today, The Whole Body of Divinity not only provides the indispensable intellectual context for the religious development of early Connecticut but also offers a more comprehensive description of the Puritanism of early New England than any other document.

Author : Barry Coward
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719043174

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The Cromwellian Protectorate by Barry Coward Pdf

The Cromwellian Protectorate examines the nature of the first regime ever to have had effective control of the British Isles and the impact that it had on England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and on Britain’s international reputation. Few previous studies of the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell and his son, Richard, have given sufficient emphasis to its achievements. Instead they have characterized it either as "a military dictatorship" or a reactionary regime that after the revolutionary events of 1649 put Britain on a road that led inevitably to the restoration of the monarchy. This book presents an alternative view of the Cromwellian Protectorate.

Author : Lori Branch
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781932792119

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Rituals of Spontaneity by Lori Branch Pdf

Winner of the Book of the Year Award for the Conference on Christianity and Literature.--Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College "CHOICE"

Author : Laura Stewart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047409762

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Urban Politics and the British Civil Wars by Laura Stewart Pdf

This work examines Edinburgh's contribution to the outbreak of the British civil wars and its importance in the establishment of the revolutionary Covenanting regime. Early modern urban culture, multiple monarchy and post-Reformation religious radicalism are key themes of the book.

Author : Kate Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 0521770904

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Print Culture and the Early Quakers by Kate Peters Pdf

This book studies the early Quaker use of printed tracts, how they were produced and used.

Author : David Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317069195

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Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature by David Coleman Pdf

Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature brings together leading scholars of early modern literature and culture to explicate the ways in which both regional and religious contexts inform the production, circulation and interpretation of Renaissance literary texts. Examining texts by a wide variety of early modern writers - including Edmund Spenser, Lodowick Lloyd, Richard Nugent, Thomas Middleton and John Webster, Richard Montagu, and John Milton - the contributors to this volume enhance our understanding of the complex cultural contexts of early modern Anglophone writing.