The history of the Puritans can be traced back to the first Vestments Controversy in the reign of Edward VI, the formation of an identifiable Puritan movement in the 1560s and ends in a decline in the ...
Earliest Puritan history, 1558–1603 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Puritans were not content with the Anglican settlement and the established church. They believed that the English church ...
"There's now a complete consensus that the popular image of the Puritans is almost totally inaccurate," said Mary Beth Norton, a professor of American history at Cornell University and author of "In ...
Puritans were allegedly identifiable by their nasal whines and the lifting of their eyes to heaven. For Ben Jonson, who lampooned ‘the holy brethren’ in the characters of Tribulation Wholesome and ...