Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster Bloomsbury Academic, 2006 - 697 páginas 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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... born in the county of Cheshire to a prominent gentry family . He was lo- cally educated and then attended St. Alban Hall in Oxford for two years . Bruen evidently had a strong spiritual experience , from which he emerged as a zealous ...
... born as the eldest surviving son of the younger son of a promi- nent East Anglian landowner , whose wealth was based on monastic spoils handed out by Henry VIII's chief minister , Thomas Cromwell , to his rela- tions . He was a child of ...
... born in Cornwall but was living in the county of Somerset when he was admitted to Emmanuel College , Cambridge , in 1644. His tutor there was the future archbishop of Canterbury William Sancroft . Pol- whele received his B.A. in 1648 ...
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List of Contributors | ix |
Acknowledgments | xvii |
Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America | 76 |
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