And how these adventurers affect us today. Who were the real Puritans? And why did “Puritan” become a derogatory label? In what ways have the Puritans shaped what we believe and how we live today?

At least the moralisers of old were trying to save your soul. Today’s progressive puritans are trying to suck the soul out of you. And no wonder, considering how fantastically glum they all are ...

For more than 150 years, the Puritans have received a shameful reputation. The colonizers of New England, credited with the first ...

Feelings of guilt and iron self-discipline are causing people to forego the simple pleasures in life and turning Britain into a nation of puritans, it has emerged. A survey of more than 2,000 ...

The Puritans objected to the Popish associations of Christmas and to the excesses such as play-acting, gambling and dancing with ...

Auf der Bühne waren These New Puritans, Goose und Fischerspooner zu sehen, sowie die Michael Clark Dance Company. Nach Abschluss ...

Buried Westminster Abbey. King James is famous for three things: Popery, puritans and witches. Popular history will always ...

Some Puritans valued good preaching above the services laid down in the Prayer Book. During the 1570s, groups of clergymen began to meet to hear sermons from good preachers. These meetings were ...

White, Rebecca 2023. XVAmerican Literature to 1900. The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 101, Issue. 1, p. 1084. For ...

How the Blood clan wove itself first into the settling of New England and later into the founding of a new nation—and into ...