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The Culture of English Puritanism 1560-1700

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Christopher Durston
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  2. Jacqueline Eales
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Part of the book series: Themes in Focus (TIF)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: The Puritan Ethos, 1560–1700

    • Christopher Durston, Jacqueline Eales
    Pages 1-31

  3. Elizabethan and Jacobean Puritanism as Forms of Popular Religious Culture

    • Patrick Collinson
    Pages 32-57

  4. Puritans and the Church Courts, 1560–1640

    • Martin Ingram
    Pages 58-91

  5. Puritans and Iconoclasm, 1560–1660

    • Margaret Aston
    Pages 92-121

  6. The Puritan Death-bed, c.1560–c.l660

    • Ralph Houlbrooke
    Pages 122-144

  7. ‘A Charitable Christian Hatred’: The Godly and their Enemies in the 1630s

    • Peter Lake
    Pages 145-183

  8. A Road to Revolution: The Continuity of Puritanism, 1559–1642

    • Jacqueline Eales
    Pages 184-209

  9. Puritan Rule and the Failure of Cultural Revolution, 1645–1660

    • Christopher Durston
    Pages 210-233

  10. From Puritanism to Dissent, 1660–1700

    • John Spurr
    Pages 234-265

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 266-332
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About this book

The Culture of English Puritanism is a major contribution to the debate on the nature and extent of early modern Puritanism. In their introduction the editors provide an up-to-date survey of the long-standing debate on Puritanism, before proceeding to outline their own definition of the movement. They argue that Puritanism should be defined as a unique and vibrant religious culture, which was grounded in a distinctive psychological outlook and which manifested itself in a set of highly characteristic religious practices.

In the subsequent essays, a distinguished group of contributors consider in detail some of the most important aspects of this culture, in particular sermon-gadding, collective fasting, strict observance of Sunday, iconoclasm, and puritan attempts to reform alternative popular culture of their ungodly neighbours. Other contributions chart the channels through which puritan culture was sustained in the 80-year period proceding the English Civil War, the failure of attempts by the puritan government of Interregnum England to impose this puritan culture on the English people, the subsequent emergence of Dissent after 1600

About the authors

CHRISTOPHER DUNSTON was educated at Oxford and Reading Universities and is now Reader in History at St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill (a College of the University of Surrey). He has published a number of books and articles on aspects of seventeenth-century English history, including Princes, Pastors and People (1991) and James (1993)

JACQUELINE EALES is a graduate of London University and Senior Lecturer in History at Christ Church College, Canterbury. She is author of the award winning book Puritans and Roundheads: The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War (1990)

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