Search results for "Puritan" - New World Encyclopedia
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- During the Interregnum, England had been dominated by Puritan literature ... bartleby.com/217/0312.html Cavalier and Puritan: Writers of the Couplet: ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- Harvard educated Mather Byles, a nephew of the puritan leader Cotton Mather. Phillis Wheatley, Notable Black American Women, Book 1 (Gale Research ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- in 1642, Massachusetts Bay Colony became a Puritan stronghold. The Puritans ... Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony, and Puritan settlers traveled to Salem ...52 KB (7,434 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2023
- and contrasted them with the rebuking words of Puritan preacher Cotton Mather. What could be considered her magnum opus was the production of ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- and he was later called "the last Puritan" by his student, Jesse R. Pitts (Hamilton 1983). Parsons' father also served as president ...14 KB (1,904 words) - 21:04, 13 November 2020
- chancellor of the university and also a Puritan. Although he was a capable ... The influences of Locke's Puritan upbringing and his Whig political ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 16:04, 27 March 2024
- * Murray, Ian H. The Puritan Hope: Revival and the Interpretation of Prophecy. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1971. * Strachan, Gordon. The Pentecostal ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- These last suggestions reveal Fox's Puritan leanings, which continued ... beliefs were welcome to all Quakers. His Puritan-like opposition to the arts ...28 KB (4,636 words) - 15:53, 20 May 2024
- than the Restoration. There were Puritan authors, however, and one ... Defoe's works are consistently Puritan. They all involve a fall ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime, the re-opening of the theaters in 1660 signaled a rebirth of English drama. The era of Restoration ...15 KB (2,294 words) - 15:46, 20 May 2024
- perhaps in response to the struggles of the Puritan era. Among the tragedies, The Maid's Tragedy and, especially, Rollo Duke of Normandy held the ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 06:38, 8 April 2024
- years of continuous operation, it was closed by the Puritan government which closed all London theaters on moral grounds. The building was demolished ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- nicknamed him "the last Puritan" for his views; in 1788 he would write in his diary regarding the federalist and anti-federalist factions ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 02:17, 23 December 2022
- from Northampton, Massachusetts, who came from Puritan and Calvinist roots, but emphasized the importance and power of immediate, personal religious ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 17:24, 28 March 2024
- The Christian ethic as interpreted by the Puritan middle class called for dedication to work, honesty, thrift, and charity. It was fundamentally ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- largely as a reaction to the collapse of the Puritan era. He is often attributed to leading the way for notable playwrights such as William Congreve ...15 KB (2,460 words) - 15:44, 20 May 2024
- abbey suffered damage when it was attacked by Puritan iconoclasts, but was again protected by its close ties to the state during the Commonwealth period ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- to rebel against the earlier strictures of the Puritan revolution. As tastes changed again, Congreve fell silent. For the majority of his life, he lived ...16 KB (2,529 words) - 15:55, 7 May 2023
- century through certain Reformed and Puritan scholars, and the Great ... premillennialism." In the New World, Puritan ministers such as Thomas ...47 KB (6,873 words) - 18:00, 9 November 2022
- played an important role in advancing Puritan and separatist principles. Robert Browne, John Greenwood, Henry Barrowe, and the future Pilgrim ...34 KB (4,989 words) - 13:06, 3 May 2023
