Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England

Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England

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In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. In this classic work of social history, Professor Hill shows Puritanism as a living faith, one that responded to social as well as religious needs. It was a set of beliefs that answered the hopes and fears of yeomen and gentlemen, merchants and artisans in the tribulations of early modern Britain, a time of extraordinary turbulence. Over this period, Puritanism, he shows, was interwoven into daily life. He looks at how rituals such as oath-taking, the Sabbath, bawdy courts and poor relief, became ways to order the social upheaval. He even offers an explanation for the emergence of the seemingly paradoxical - the Puritan revolutionaries.

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  • ‘Indispensable for understanding the century from the Reformation to the Civil War.’

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  • The masterly application of the author’s enormous reading give vitality to every page…a delight to read.

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  • The dean and paragon of English historians.

    E.P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class