Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster Bloomsbury Academic, 2006 - 697 sidor 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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... became lecturer at Christ Church , Newgate . He became part of the steady influx of puritans from the provinces in the 1590s that sustained the Lon- don nonconformist community , which was under pressure from Bishop Aylmer and ...
... became engaged in New En- gland when he agreed to manage some of Crad- dock's properties in Massachusetts . He prospered in New England and in 1641 became proprietor of Martha's Vineyard , Nantucket , and other islands off the coast ...
... became a member of the Massachu- setts Bay Company , and after being silenced by Laud in 1629 , he migrated to Holland . In 1632 he reorganized the English church in Rotterdam along Congregational lines after corresponding with John ...
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List of Contributors | ix |
Acknowledgments | xvii |
Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America | 76 |
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