Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century LondonStanford University Press, 1985 - 258 páginas Seventeenth-century England has been richly documented by th lives of kings and their great ministers, the nobility and gentry, and bishops and preachers, but we have very little firsthand information on ordinary citizens. This unique portrait of the life, thought, and attitudes of a London Puritan turner (lathe worker) is based on the extraordinary personal papers of Nehemiah Wallington 2,600 surviving pages of memoirs, religious reflections, political reportage, and letters. Coming to maturity during the reign of James I, Wallington witnessed the persecution of Puritans during Archbishop Laud s ascendancy under Charles I, welcomed what he thought would be the godly revolution brought by the Long Parliament, and watched with increasing disillusionment the falure of that dream under the Rump republic and the Cromwellian Protectorate. The author reconstructs Wallington s inner world, allowing us to see what an ordinary man made of a lifetime of reading Puritan doctrine and listening to the sermons of Puritan preachers. For the first time we can penetrate the mind of one of those who made up the London mob calling for the end of episcopacy and the death of the Earl of Strafford in 1641, who welcomed the revolution, if not the war that followed, and who finally came to approve the death of his king. |
Contenido
The Examined Life I | 1 |
To Begin a New Life | 14 |
The Theater of the World | 45 |
Family and Friends | 67 |
The Particular Calling | 112 |
Politics and Prayer | 143 |
The Casting Up of Accounts | 182 |
Wallingtons Notebooks | 199 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-century London Paul S. Seaver Sin vista previa disponible - 1985 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Colfe Antichrist apprentice Arminian Arthur Dent artisan Brilliana Harley brother called child children of God Christ Christian Church comfort conscience Covenant death discipline divine early Eastcheap England evidently faith father fear Folger folios Geneva Bible godly community Grace hath heart Henry Roborough Historical Notices holy household Ibid James Cole John Wallington judgments king Lady Brilliana Harley later Leonard's Eastcheap letter Lewisham lington lived Livewell London Lord Lord's marriage miah minister Nehe Nehemiah neighbor never Nevertheless notebooks parish Parliament percent political poor pounds pray prayer preacher preaching Puritan Rampaigne recorded reformation Roborough Roundheads Sabbath Sacrament saints Sarah seemed sermons shillings sins Sloane soul spiritual Star Chamber things Thomas Thomas Beard Thomas Hooker thought tion troubled Turners unto Wallington found Wallington knew Wallington noted wicked wife William Perkins Wilsmore words write written wrote
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