Monthly Archives: March 2017

Elizabethan Puritanism and the Poor: A Reconsideration

Until recently, historians have accepted all too readily the arguments of Max Weber, R. H. Tawney, and Christopher Hill that the Puritans of English society, and the clergy in particular, discriminated against the poor, and tended to exclude them from … Continue reading

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