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A fire laid waste to Dorchester in 1613 and changed this backwater town into the most Puritan community in 17th-century England. Underdown (history, Yale), a specialist in that period, reconstructs the life of "godly" Dorchester for a general audience. The first three chapters describe political and social structures, and Chapters 4 and 5 go on to relate how Pastor John White and his supporters struggled to reorder their town through institutional reform and moral discipline. The last three chapters trace Dorchester's involvement in English politics from the rumblings of civil dissent through civil war, revolution, and eventual loss of Puritan zeal. Knowledgeable readers in public or college libraries will find suitable parallels with modern U.S. and other societies.
- Richard C. Hoffmann, York Univ., North York, Ontario
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Richard C. Hoffmann, York Univ., North York, Ontario
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)
This is a remarkably readable book which explores the lives, both religious and less pious, of Dorchester personalities in the early C17th. It is a wonderful balance between thorough and wide-ranging local history and the soap opera drama of daily life. All set in the fascinating and outlandish landscape of C16th Puritanism. Highly recommended for any reader.
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This is a deeply satisfying study of Dorset, a town that contributed early settlers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in the decades that led up to the English Civil War.
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Interesting information especially for Genealogists, a bit slow to find items of interest but well done, well indexed
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