At the House of Mr Frog
Malcolm Gaskill: Puritanism, 18 March 2021
The Puritans: A Transatlantic History
by David D. Hall.
Princeton, 517 pp., £20, May 2021,978 0 691 20337 9 Show More
by David D. Hall.
Princeton, 517 pp., £20, May 2021,
The Journey to the Mayflower: God’s Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
by Stephen Tomkins.
Hodder, 372 pp., £12.99, February 2021,978 1 4736 4911 8 Show More
by Stephen Tomkins.
Hodder, 372 pp., £12.99, February 2021,
“... at Harvard, they are ‘Puritans’ (though in his preface he blames this on his copy-editor); Stephen Tomkins, who is British, prefers lower case. In America, the name carries more baggage than in England and Scotland, and might mean any English colonist in New England, where industry and piety marched in lockstep. But the use of a ‘P’ still ... ”