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,
“... whose work in the diocese of Bath and Wells, under the Laudian Bishop William Peirs, is studied in Margaret Steig’s book Laud’s Laboratory, a riot of statistical tabulation about the early 17th-century clergy. Laud also suppressed Puritan preaching. There are reminders in Steig’s book, as in Collinson’s, that ... ”
