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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... puritan minis- ters and supporters of Parliament . Sir Francis Barrington ( d . 1628 ) studied at Cambridge Uni- versity , served as a justice of the peace , and rep- resented the county of Essex in Queen Eliza- beth's last parliament ...
... Puritan persuasiveness , and a defense of predestinarian piety . Several dis- tinguished Puritan clergymen wrote and visited ; the famous Puritan divines John Dod and Thomas Hooker were successively retained by the Drake family to board ...
... Puritan life in the words of the people who lived it • Text is enhanced with portraits of Puritan leaders , photos of historic sites , and images of important historical events • Covers all aspects of Puritan life - religious , personal ...
Contents
List of Contributors | ix |
Acknowledgments | xvii |
Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America | 76 |
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