Puritans (The Killjoys of History)

The Puritans were a group behind the religious ideology known as “Puritanism”, a type of early modern Reformed Protestantism that was born within the Church of England. They started as a movement for religious reform in the late-16th century and lasted until the late-17th century in England and around the 1730s in North America.

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Credit:
Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)

Narrator:

Bryan 'Lazlo' Beauregard

Sincerely grateful to Dr. Graeme Murdock for looking over an earlier draft of the script.

Bibliography:

Bremer, Francis J. Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Coffey, John, and Paul C. H. Lim, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism. Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Daniels, R. Balfour. “Shakespeare and the Puritans” The Shakespeare Association Bulletin 13, no. 1 (1938): 40–53.

Pederson, Randall J. Unity in Diversity: English Puritans and the Puritan Reformation, 1603-1689. BRILL, 2014.

Shepard, Paul and C. L. Rawlins. “The Puritans.” In Nature and Madness, 75–92. University of Georgia Press, 1982.