Francis J Bremer

One Small Candle

The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England

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Produktbeschreibung

Publishing on the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower, One Small Candle highlights the religious beliefs and practices of the men and women who founded the Plymouth Colony and how the example of their community influenced the political and cultural foundations of English New England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 144mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780197510049
• ISBN-10: 0197510043
• Artikelnr.: 58568683

Autorenporträt

Francis J. Bremer is Professor Emeritus of History at Millersville University and the Coordinator of New England Beginnings, a partnership formed to commemorate the cultures that shaped New England four hundred years ago. An eminent scholar of Puritanism in the Atlantic world, he is the author of the prize-winning John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (OUP, 2003); First Founders: American Puritans and Puritanism in the Atlantic World; and Building a New Jerusalem: John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds, among other titles.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Disease and Death in Early Plymouth
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Religious Scene in Early Modern England
Chapter 2: To Tarry or Not to Tarry
Chapter 3: Refugees
Chapter 4: Setting a New Course
Chapter 5: Dawn Land
Chapter 6: Small Beginnings
Chapter 7: The Godly Community
Chapter 8: Sustaining the Vision
Chapter 9: Plymouth and the Bay
Chapter 10: Congregationalism Advanced
Conclusion: Defending Plymouth Congregationalism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index