The Puritan Gentry

Author : J. T. Cliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000222975

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The Puritan Gentry by J. T. Cliffe Pdf

Originally published in 1984, this was the first detailed study of the impact of Puritan influences on the wealthy county families of early Stuart England. It discusses one of the central issues in the history of the English Civil War: what motivated those men and women who risked all in opposition to King Charles I. The book looks at the role played by gentry families in the advancement or defence of ‘true religion’, and considers the reasons why powerful families which helped to govern the counties were to be found among the godly. It explores the conflict between class values and the exacting demands of an austere religious philosophy and examines the relationship between the Puritan gentry and the clerical Puritans who included authors, university dons, schoolmasters, lecturers and parish clergy.

Author : Trevor Cliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134918157

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Puritan Gentry Besieged 1650-1700 by Trevor Cliffe Pdf

The latter half of the seventeenth century saw the Puritan families of England struggle to preserve the old values in an era of tremendous political and religious upheaval. Even non-conformist ministers were inclined to be pessimistic about the endurance of `godliness' - Puritan attitudes and practices - among the upper classes. Based on a study of family papers and other primary resources, Trevor Cliffe's study reveals that in many cases, Puritan county families were playing a double game: outwardly in communion with the Church, they often employed non-conformist chaplains, and attended nonconformist meetings.

Author : J. T. Cliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000223330

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Puritans in Conflict by J. T. Cliffe Pdf

Originally published in 1988, and the companion book to The Puritan Gentry, covering the period of the Civil War, the English republic and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, this book gives an account of how the godly interest of the Puritans dissolved into faction and impotence. The fissures among the Puritan gentry stemmed, as the book shows, from a conflict between their zeal in religion and the conservative instincts which owed much to their wealth and status.

Author : John Trevor Cliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0710210043

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Puritanism, Power and Decline by John Trevor Cliffe Pdf

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3481 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000519266

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Routledge Library Editions: Puritanism by Various Authors Pdf

Originally published between 1930 and 1988 many of the volumes in this set are based upon years of painstaking archival research in private and published papers. They provide many insights into the Puritan world of the early 17th Century and: Analyse the economic depression in the mid-1600s and the resultant unemployment and poverty which caused social upheaval. Discuss the importance of the divisions among the Puritans for political processes within both the church and wider society. Examine the motivation of the Puritans who emigrated. Discuss the impact the Puritan family had on the spiritual development of the Anglo-American world.

Author : Mark Goldie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Clergy
ISBN : 9781783271108

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Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs by Mark Goldie Pdf

Mark Goldie's authoritative and highly readable introduction to the political and religious landscape of Britain during the turbulent era of later Stuart rule.

Author : John Maddicott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192896100

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Between Scholarship and Church Politics by John Maddicott Pdf

Between Scholarship and Church Politics describes the life and career of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter College, Oxford, 1612-1642, regius professor of divinity, 1615-1642, and bishop of Worcester, 1641-1646. Prideaux was the leading representative of the 'old guard' in the Church of England - Calvinist believers in the doctrines of grace and predestination, who set themselves against the growing power of the Arminian modernisers within the Church, largely the followers of Archbishop Laud. But Prideaux was also an outstandingly successful head of his Oxford college and made it a home for foreign scholars and students. Devoted to teaching, the writers of numerous books for undergraduates and theology students, and thoroughly involved in his College's everyday affairs, he was a model rector. In this study, John Maddicott addresses at length both with Prideaux's political and ecclesiastical career and his role in the College, while also paying particular attention to his personality, his family life (he was twice married and had nine children), and to his wide circle of relatives, colleagues, and allies. Born the son of a Devonshire yeoman and brought up on a farm on the edge of Dartmoor, he rose to occupy some of the highest offices in the university of Oxford and in the church: a result of his intellectual power, his ambition, his learning and scholarship, and his capacity for hard work. Between Scholarship and Church Politics is as much a study of character as a contribution to the political and church history of early Stuart England.

Author : Christopher Durston,Jacqueline Eales
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Felicity Heal,Clive Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349236404

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The Gentry in England and Wales, 1500-1700 by Felicity Heal,Clive Holmes Pdf

The book is the first full analysis of the gentry in the early modern period since G.E.Mingay The Gentry: the Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (1976). It offers a synthesis of the recent specialist work on this key social and political group, but will also provide a distinctive approach to its subjects through the use of the texts and artefacts by which the gentry sought to fashion themselves.

Author : Amanda Porterfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Christian women
ISBN : 9780195068214

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Female Piety in Puritan New England by Amanda Porterfield Pdf

This treatise documents the claim that, for Puritan men and women alike, the ideals of selfhood were conveyed by female images. It argues that these images taught self-control, shaped pious ideals and established the standards against which the moral character of real women was measured.

Author : E. Digby Baltzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351495332

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Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia by E. Digby Baltzell Pdf

Based on the biographies of some three hundred people in each city, this book shows how such distinguished Boston families as the Adamses, Cabots, Lowells, and Peabodys have produced many generations of men and women who have made major contributions to the intellectual, educational, and political life of their state and nation. At the same time, comparable Philadelphia families such as the Biddles, Cadwaladers, Ingersolls, and Drexels have contributed far fewer leaders to their state and nation. From the days of Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Girard down to the present, what leadership there has been in Philadelphia has largely been provided by self-made men, often, like Franklin, born outside Pennsylvania.Baltzell traces the differences in class authority and leadership in these two cites to the contrasting values of the Puritan founders of the Bay Colony and the Quaker founders of the City of Brotherly Love. While Puritans placed great value on the calling or devotion to one's chosen vocation, Quakers have always placed more emphasis on being a good person than on being a good judge or statesman. Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia presents a provocative view of two contrasting upper classes and also reflects the author's larger concern with the conflicting values of hierarchy and egalitarianism in American history.

Author : R. C. Richardson,William Henry Chaloner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719036003

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British Economic and Social History by R. C. Richardson,William Henry Chaloner Pdf

Author : Allen French
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000224023

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Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval by Allen French Pdf

Originally published in 1955 and based on research of public records and other contemporary sources, this book builds up an excellent picture of England before the Civil War. Through a series of case studies, it examines the type of person who emigrated to New England and their motivation for doing so. The wealth of evidence from original documents is clearly arranged and provides a refreshing reassessment of the period, showing that although religious conviction was a clear motive for emigration, the Puritan were also seeking security from hardships of other kinds.

Author : A.L. Rowse
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000870268

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Reflections on the Puritan Revolution by A.L. Rowse Pdf

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 : R. C. Richardson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0719004772

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Puritanism in North-West England by R. C. Richardson Pdf