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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790291703321

Autore

Bremer Francis J

Titolo

First founders [[electronic resource] ] : American Puritans and Puritanism in an Atlantic world / / Francis J. Bremer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, N.H., : University of New Hampshire Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-49114-0

9786613586377

1-61168-258-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

New England in the world

Disciplina

285/.9092

Soggetti

Puritans - New England - Clergy - History - 17th century

Puritans - New England

New England History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- John Winthrop and the struggle to lead a godly life -- John Endecott : godly magistrate -- John Wilson : Puritan pastor -- Thomas Dudley and Thomas Shepard : hammers of heretics -- Dissenting women : Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer, Lady Deborah Moody, and Anne Eaton -- The troubled Keaynes -- Stephen Winthrop : soldier of the Lord -- Hugh Peter : regicide -- John Davenport and the Middle Advent -- Samuel Winthrop : from Puritan to Quaker -- John Sassamon : a Puritan between two cultures -- John Leverett : defending the ways of the fathers -- Anne Bradstreet : Puritan wife and mother -- Samuel Sewall : the conscience of a Puritan -- Conclusion : civil society and the godly kingdom.

Sommario/riassunto

An introduction to the diverse lives of the Puritan founders by a leading expert