Author: Richard Baxter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521405805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First modern edition of a controversial seventeenth-century political and religious work.
Baxter: A Holy Commonwealth
Author: Richard Baxter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521405805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First modern edition of a controversial seventeenth-century political and religious work.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521405805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First modern edition of a controversial seventeenth-century political and religious work.
The Puritan Commonwealth
Author: Peter Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Writing New England
Author: Andrew Delbanco
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 9780674335479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Organized thematically, this anthology provides a collective self-portrait of the New England mind. With an introductory essay on the origins of New England, a detailed chronology, and explanatory headnotes for each selection, the book is a welcoming introduction to a great American literary tradition and a treasury of vivid writing that defines what it has meant, over nearly four centuries, to be a New Englander.
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 9780674335479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Organized thematically, this anthology provides a collective self-portrait of the New England mind. With an introductory essay on the origins of New England, a detailed chronology, and explanatory headnotes for each selection, the book is a welcoming introduction to a great American literary tradition and a treasury of vivid writing that defines what it has meant, over nearly four centuries, to be a New Englander.
Creating the Commonwealth
Author: Stephen Innes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393035841
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Describes how the Puritan culture of New England gave rise to capitalism, and recounts how the small colony developed an international economy.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393035841
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Describes how the Puritan culture of New England gave rise to capitalism, and recounts how the small colony developed an international economy.
Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Francis J. Bremer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199740879
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society and the role of the Puritan legacy in American history. Francis J. Bremer discusses the rise of Puritanism in the English Reformation, the struggle of the reformers to purge what they viewed as the corruptions of Roman Catholicism from the Elizabethan church, and the struggle with the Stuart monarchs that led to a brief Puritan triumph under Oliver Cromwell. It also examines the effort of Puritans who left England to establish a godly kingdom in America. Bremer examines puritan theology, views on family and community, their beliefs about the proper relationship between religion and public life, the limits of toleration, the balance between individual rights and one's obligation to others, and the extent to which public character should be shaped by private religious belief. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199740879
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society and the role of the Puritan legacy in American history. Francis J. Bremer discusses the rise of Puritanism in the English Reformation, the struggle of the reformers to purge what they viewed as the corruptions of Roman Catholicism from the Elizabethan church, and the struggle with the Stuart monarchs that led to a brief Puritan triumph under Oliver Cromwell. It also examines the effort of Puritans who left England to establish a godly kingdom in America. Bremer examines puritan theology, views on family and community, their beliefs about the proper relationship between religion and public life, the limits of toleration, the balance between individual rights and one's obligation to others, and the extent to which public character should be shaped by private religious belief. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
A Little Commonwealth
Author: John Demos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195128901
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This text examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Demos portrays the family as a structure of roles and relationships of man and wife, parent and child and master and servant.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195128901
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This text examines the family in the context of the colony founded by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Demos portrays the family as a structure of roles and relationships of man and wife, parent and child and master and servant.
The Puritan Revolution
Author: Stuart E. Prall
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A Reforming People
Author: David D. Hall
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0679441174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Distinguished historian Hall presents a revelatory account of New England's Puritans that shows them to have been the most daring and successful reformers of the Anglo-colonial world.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0679441174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Distinguished historian Hall presents a revelatory account of New England's Puritans that shows them to have been the most daring and successful reformers of the Anglo-colonial world.
Hot Protestants
Author: Michael P. Winship
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030012628X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
On fire for God--a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking volume traces puritanism's tumultuous history from its initial attempts to reshape the Church of England to its establishment of godly republics in both England and America and its demise at the end of the seventeenth century. Shedding new light on puritans whose impact was far-reaching as well as on those who left only limited traces behind them, Michael Winship delineates puritanism's triumphs and tribulations and shows how the puritan project of creating reformed churches working closely with intolerant godly governments evolved and broke down over time in response to changing geographical, political, and religious exigencies.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030012628X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
On fire for God--a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking volume traces puritanism's tumultuous history from its initial attempts to reshape the Church of England to its establishment of godly republics in both England and America and its demise at the end of the seventeenth century. Shedding new light on puritans whose impact was far-reaching as well as on those who left only limited traces behind them, Michael Winship delineates puritanism's triumphs and tribulations and shows how the puritan project of creating reformed churches working closely with intolerant godly governments evolved and broke down over time in response to changing geographical, political, and religious exigencies.
Cromwell's Legacy
Author: Jane A. Mills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780719080906
Category : Government, Resistance to
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Now available in paperback, Cromwell's Legacy is an exciting collection of essays by scholars who are well-known in their fields of research, most of whom have a proven track record of making their scholarship accessible to a wide student and general readership. This study examines different ways in which Cromwell's life and work impacted on Britain and the rest of the world after his death. Each contributor examines Cromwell's legacy, including not only the important central question of Cromwell's impact on the religious, military and political life of Britain after his death but also Britain's relations with Europe and future developments in both North and South America. The structure of this book has been designed to give as wide a coverage of time and place as possible. This book not only sheds light on an aspect of Cromwellian studies that has been comparatively neglected, it will also stimulate further work on this topic.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780719080906
Category : Government, Resistance to
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Now available in paperback, Cromwell's Legacy is an exciting collection of essays by scholars who are well-known in their fields of research, most of whom have a proven track record of making their scholarship accessible to a wide student and general readership. This study examines different ways in which Cromwell's life and work impacted on Britain and the rest of the world after his death. Each contributor examines Cromwell's legacy, including not only the important central question of Cromwell's impact on the religious, military and political life of Britain after his death but also Britain's relations with Europe and future developments in both North and South America. The structure of this book has been designed to give as wide a coverage of time and place as possible. This book not only sheds light on an aspect of Cromwellian studies that has been comparatively neglected, it will also stimulate further work on this topic.