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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... political Presbyterian party led by Denzil Holles . Sir Robert's eldest sons , Ed- ward and Robert , served in the Parliamentarian army , and in 1646 Edward was returned to the Long Parliament as MP for Herefordshire . In 1647 Edward ...
... political matters , as he focused upon his archiepis- copal see and his studies . He didn't reenter the world of political affairs until he left for England in 1640 , where he remained permanently after the 1641 rising in Ireland and ...
... politics until Cromwell's death in 1658. During his retirement , Vane pub- lished his major religious treatise , A ... political figure when the Rump was reinstated upon Cromwell's death , and he threw in his lot with the army in the ...
Contents
List of Contributors | ix |
Acknowledgments | xvii |
Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America | 76 |
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