Exile and Kingdom
Subtitle: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 29, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521403818
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Religion - Denominations - Religions; History: World; Protestantism; To 1775; Religion - Church History; British Isles; USA; New England; Christianity - Presbyterian; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; History / Great Britain; History-Europe - Great Britain - General; History-Western Europe - General; Religion / Christianity / Presbyterianism; Church history; Religious aspects; United States; Christianity; History; History of doctrines; Puritans
First sentence: When describing the impressive growth and revival of learning during the sixteenth century, Francis Bacon suggested that the source for this important cultural and intellectual transformation, later known as the "Renaissance" and "humanism," should be seen in the context of the Protestant Reformation.