Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England (eBook)

Christopher Hill (Autor)

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2018 | Ebook UK & RoW
464 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-78663-623-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
• Schlagworte: British history • English Civil War • History of Religion • seventeenth century
• ISBN-10: 1-78663-623-9 / 1786636239
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-623-2 / 9781786636232