Their opponents ridiculed them as “Puritans,” but these radical reformers, the English followers of John Calvin, came to embrace that name as an emblem of honor. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, England faced a gathering storm in religious life – the Puritan movement. Before the storm abated, the Puritans had founded the first …
The reign of Edward VI saw great religious upheaval from a Protestantreligion that was Catholic in nature to a more clearly defined and radicalquasi-Calvinism. In that sense religious policy hardened. But the policies andideal never became deeply entrenched and accepted throughout the country andoften only existed to serve the interests of those who enacted them, …
The Threat of Anne HutchinsonIn Puritan led Massachusetts Bay Colony during the days of Anne Hutchinson was an intriguing place to have lived. It was designed ideally as a holy mission in the New World called the city upon a hill, a mission to provide a prime example of how protestant lives should have subsisted …
As the religious wars consumed Europe, the ‘invasion’ of Philip II aroused rebellious feelings on both political and religious grounds–as the majority of the Netherlands were Protestant and Phillip and his Spaniards were emphatically Catholic. In 1 566, a “league” was formed to counter the Spanish influence and their petition to Spain to forgo the …
The Faerie Queene is an important romantic epic that more than being just poetry, represents the protestant imagery in terms of kinds of individual virtue , the forces of temptation and human weaknesses to which the greatest of persons can succumb and, of course, the humanist ideals of its time. His author, Edmund Spenser, makes …
Why Was Richard Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury, Killed In 1539? On 15th of November 1539 Richard Whiting was executed at the top of Glastonbury Tor. Before Richard was executed he was dragged through the streets of Glastonbury. He was hung until his last breath and then they cut the rope, he was drawn open and …
