Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners

Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners
Title Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners PDF eBook
Author Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs
Publisher
Pages 936
Release 2009
Genre Dissenters, Religious
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"Controversies in politics and religion, customs of family life and society, obligations of labor and chances to play, questions of free will, democracy, the separation of church and state, religious toleration, treatment of Indians---these form the matter of this book." -- Publisher's description.

The Mayflower and Her Passengers

The Mayflower and Her Passengers
Title The Mayflower and Her Passengers PDF eBook
Author Caleb H. Johnson
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 293
Release 2005-12-27
Genre History
ISBN 1462822371

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When the Mayflower embarked on her famous voyage to America in 1620, she was carrying 102 passengers. To most, they are simply known as “the Pilgrims.” Perhaps the name of Governor William Bradford, Elder William Brewster, or Captain Myles Standish are vaguely familiar; but the vast majority of the Mayflower passengers have remained anonymous and nameless. In The Mayflower and Her Passengers, I have attempted to resurrect the unique individuality of each passenger by providing short biographies for each person or family group. Also included is a groundbreaking new biography of the Mayflower ship itself.

New Light on the Old Colony

New Light on the Old Colony
Title New Light on the Old Colony PDF eBook
Author Jeremy Bangs
Publisher BRILL
Pages 580
Release 2019-10-29
Genre History
ISBN 900442055X

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Colonial government, Pilgrims, the New England town, Native land, the background of religious toleration, and the changing memory recalling the Pilgrims – all are examined and stereotypical assumptions overturned in 15 essays by the foremost authority on the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony. Thorough research revises the story of colonists and of the people they displaced. Bangs’ book is required reading for the history of New England, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Natives, the Mennonite contribution to religious toleration in Europe and New England, and the history of commemoration, from paintings and pageants to living history and internet memes. If Pilgrims were radical, so is this book.

History of the Puritons in England and the Pilgrim Fathers

History of the Puritons in England and the Pilgrim Fathers
Title History of the Puritons in England and the Pilgrim Fathers PDF eBook
Author Wilson F. Scot
Publisher
Pages 532
Release 1849
Genre Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
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The Mayflower in Britain

The Mayflower in Britain
Title The Mayflower in Britain PDF eBook
Author Graham Taylor
Publisher Amberley Publishing Limited
Pages 272
Release 2020-08-15
Genre History
ISBN 1445692309

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Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower, Graham Taylor focuses on the ship's place in British history and its fascinating history tied to the city of London.

The Puritans in America

The Puritans in America
Title The Puritans in America PDF eBook
Author Alan Heimert
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 458
Release 2009-07-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0674038495

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The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of their intellectual achievements and failures, are vividly depicted in The Puritans in America. Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what Cromwell called “a poor, cold, and useless” place—where they created a body of ideas and aspirations that were essential in the shaping of American religion, politics, and culture. In a felicitous blend of documents and narrative Alan Heimert and Andrew Delbanco recapture the sweep and restless change of Puritan thought from its incipient Americanism through its dominance in New England society to its fragmentation in the face of dissent from within and without. A general introduction sketches the Puritan environment, and shorter introductions open each of the six sections of the collection. Thirty-eight writers are included—among these Cotton, Bradford, Bradstreet, Winthrop, Rowlandson, Taylor, and the Mathers—as well as the testimony of Anne Hutchinson and documents illustrating the witchcraft crisis. The works, several of which are published here for the first time since the seventeenth century, are presented in modern spelling and punctuation. Despite numerous scholarly probings, Puritanism remains resistant to categories, whether those of Perry Miller, Max Weber, or Christopher Hill. This new anthology—the first major interpretive collection in nearly fifty years—reveals the beauty and power of Puritan literature as it emerged from the pursuit of self-knowledge in the New World.

'Settling the Peace of the Church'

'Settling the Peace of the Church'
Title 'Settling the Peace of the Church' PDF eBook
Author N. H. Keeble
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 289
Release 2014-10-30
Genre Religion
ISBN 0191002267

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The 1662 Act of Uniformity and the consequent 'ejections' on 24th August (St. Bartholomew's Day) of those who refused to comply with its stringent conditions comprise perhaps the single most significant episode in post-Reformation English religious history. Intended, in its own words, 'to settle the peace of the church' by banishing dissent and outlawing Puritan opinion it instead led to penal religious legislation and persecution, vituperative controversy, and repeated attempts to diversify the religious life of the nation until, with the Toleration Act of 1689, its aspiration was finally abandoned and the freedom of the individual conscience and the right to dissent were, within limits, legally recognised. Bartholomew Day was hence, unintentionally but momentously, the first step towards today's pluralist and multicultural society. This volume brings together nine original essays which on the basis of new research examine afresh the nature and occasion of the Act, its repercussions and consequences and the competing ways in which its effects were shaped in public memory. A substantial introduction sets out the historical context. The result is an interdisciplinary volume which avoids partisanship to engage with episcopalian, nonconformist, and separatist perspectives; it understands 'English' history as part of 'British' history, taking in the Scottish and Irish experience; it recognises the importance of European and transatlantic relations by including the Netherlands and New England in its scope; and it engages with literary history in its discussions of the memorialisation of these events in autobiography, memoirs, and historiography. This collection constitutes the most wide-ranging and sustained discussion of this episode for fifty years.