Society and Puritanism in Pre-revolutionary England Hill ChristopherPaperback
Society and Puritanism in Pre-revolutionary England Hill ChristopherPaperback The role of Puritanism in the formation of modern BritainIn order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we…
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Society and Puritanism in Pre-revolutionary England Hill ChristopherPaperback
The role of Puritanism in the formation of modern BritainIn order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. It was a set of beliefs that answered the hopes and fears of yeomen and gentlemen, merchants and artisans in the tribulations of early modern Britain, a time of extraordinary turbulence. In this classic work of social history, Professor Hill shows Puritanism as a living faith, one that responded to social as well as religious needs.
He looks at how rituals such as oath-taking, the Sabbath, bawdy courts and poor relief, became ways to order the social upheaval. Over this period, Puritanism, he shows, was interwoven into daily life. He even offers an explanation for the emergence of the seemingly paradoxical - the Puritan
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