Puritan Neuroses
Blair Worden, 19 April 1984
The Puritan Gentry: The Great Puritan Families of Early Stuart England
by J.T. Cliffe.
Routledge, 313 pp., £18.95, March 1984,0 7102 0007 2 Show More
by J.T. Cliffe.
Routledge, 313 pp., £18.95, March 1984,
The Puritan Moment: The Coming of Revolution in an English County
by William Hunt.
Harvard, 365 pp., £30.60, April 1983,0 674 73903 5 Show More
by William Hunt.
Harvard, 365 pp., £30.60, April 1983,
Godly People: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism
by Patrick Collinson.
Hambledon, 604 pp., £24, July 1982,9780907628156 Show More
by Patrick Collinson.
Hambledon, 604 pp., £24, July 1982,
Laud’s Laboratory: The Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Early 17th Century
by Margaret Steig.
Associated University Presses, 416 pp., £30, September 1983,0 8387 5019 2 Show More
by Margaret Steig.
Associated University Presses, 416 pp., £30, September 1983,
The Puritan Conversion Narrative: The Beginnings of American Expression
by Patricia Caldwell.
Cambridge, 210 pp., £17.50, December 1983,0 521 25460 4 Show More
by Patricia Caldwell.
Cambridge, 210 pp., £17.50, December 1983,
“... but of a generation: that troubled, sombre generation of the 1620s and 1630s which, when civil war came, was to distribute its anxieties fairly evenly between the two sides. By the time we reach the Essex riots of 1640-2, which helped to gain the county for the Roundhead cause, Hunt’s claims for ‘social puritanism’ are under considerable strain. Just how ... ”
