Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster 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. 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.
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... gland . He was born in Framlingham , Suffolk , in 1623 and moved to Massachusetts in 1635 when his family followed the Reverend Thomas Shepard to New England . Thomas was admitted to Shepard's Cambridge , Massachusetts , congregation in ...
... gland's martyrs . He gathered papers of the Marian sufferers from men and women such as William Winthrop , who had remained underground in En- gland during the persecutions . He also engaged in researching ecclesiastical records ...
... gland . In 1677 he published anonymously An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England , defending political and religious liberty . In a parliamentary speech of that same year he warned against the growth of ...
Contents
List of Contributors | ix |
Acknowledgments | xvii |
Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America | 76 |
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