One small candle : the Plymouth Puritans and the beginning of English New England / Francis J. Bremer.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197510070 (ebook) :Subject(s): Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) | Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 | Brewster, William, 1566 or 1567-1644 | Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Biography | Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- BiographyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197510049DDC classification: 974.402 LOC classification: F68 | .B83 2020Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: One Small Candle tells how the religious values of the Pilgrims prompted their settlement of the Plymouth Colony and how those values influenced the political, intellectual, and cultural aspect of New England life a hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. It begins in early seventeenth-century England with their persecution for challenging the established national church, and their struggles as refugees in the Netherlands in the 1610s. It then examines the challenges they faced in planting a colony in America, including relations with the Native population. The book emphasizes the religious dimension of the story, which has been neglected in most recent works. In particular it focuses on how this particular group of puritan Congregationalists was driven by the belief that ordinary men and women should play the determinative role in governing church affairs.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
One Small Candle tells how the religious values of the Pilgrims prompted their settlement of the Plymouth Colony and how those values influenced the political, intellectual, and cultural aspect of New England life a hundred and fifty years before the American Revolution. It begins in early seventeenth-century England with their persecution for challenging the established national church, and their struggles as refugees in the Netherlands in the 1610s. It then examines the challenges they faced in planting a colony in America, including relations with the Native population. The book emphasizes the religious dimension of the story, which has been neglected in most recent works. In particular it focuses on how this particular group of puritan Congregationalists was driven by the belief that ordinary men and women should play the determinative role in governing church affairs.
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