The Culture of English Puritanism 1560-1700
Christopher Durston · Jacqueline Eales
Jan 1996 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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340
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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.
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.
About the author
CHRISTOPHER DUNSTON was educated at Oxford and Reading Universities and is now Reader in History at St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill (a College of the University of Surrey). He has published a number of books and articles on aspects of seventeenth-century English history, including Princes, Pastors and People (1991) and James (1993)
JACQUELINE EALES is a graduate of London University and Senior Lecturer in History at Christ Church College, Canterbury. She is author of the award winning book Puritans and Roundheads: The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War (1990)
JACQUELINE EALES is a graduate of London University and Senior Lecturer in History at Christ Church College, Canterbury. She is author of the award winning book Puritans and Roundheads: The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War (1990)
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