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

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...