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,
“... not as the first of Europe’s modern revolutions but as the last of its wars of religion. J.T. Cliffe’s useful and unpretentious book on the pre-Civil War rulers of England’s shires is entitled, not (as one would have expected a decade or two ago) The Rising Gentry or The Provincial Gentry, but The Puritan Gentry. His theme is not estate management, or ... ”
