Discord in Zion: The Puritan Divines and the Puritan Revolution 1640-1660

Liu, Tai

ISBN 10: 902475156X / ISBN 13: 9789024751563

Published by Martinus Nijhoff, Netherlands, 1973

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8vo. Hardcover. pp. 197. Very good condition. Dust-jacket has signs of wear including light tearing and smudges. The pages themselves are clean and unmarked. This book delineates the role played by Puritan ideas and the Puritan divines in the twenty years of the English Revolution. More specifically, it is a study of the metamorphosis of Puritan millenarianism, that is, the Puritan aspiration to create a new Jerusalem in England. Tai Liu received his education at the National Taiwan University and at the Indiana University. Since 1969, he has been Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of Delaware.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discord in Zion: The Puritan Divines and the Puritan Revolution 1640-1660
• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff, Netherlands
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902475156X
• ISBN 13: 9789024751563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

With the decline of the Whig interpretation of history, historians in the past few decades have re-examined the origins and the nature of the English Revolution from various perspectives. The constitutional conflict 1 between the crown and parliament has been analyzed. The Puritan mind 2 has been explored. Social change in England during the century prior 3 to the outbreak of the Civil War has been anatomized. The composition 4 of the Long Parliament has been dissected. Every student of the English Revolution is now well aware that the crisis in seventeenth-century Eng­ land, like all other major events in history, was a complex phenomenon in which men as well as ideas, religious convictions as well as economic interests all came into play. For all students of this period, the works of Samuel R. Gardiner, am­ plified by Sir Charles H. Firth, remain the chief source of knowledge and 1 It should be noted that while former historians from Hallam and Macaulay to G. M. Trevelyan and J R. Tanner all interpreted the English Revolution in terms of the constitution, recent historical scholarship in this respect is more concerned with the evolution and functioning of the constitution rather than the constitutional rights and wrongs of either party in the conflict. See Wallace Notestein, The Winning of the Initiative by the House of Commons (London, 1924); Margaret A.