HIST-209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Puritans, Protestantism, Landed Gentry
28 Feb 2019
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Leading to the outbreak of the english civil war: church of england/anglican establishment. It is a protestant church, not done as a popular movement, there is an emphasis on hierarchy, ritual, and ceremony: puritans want something that is truly protestant. They wanted nothing to do with hierarchy and church courts and taxes. Church courts had a lot of power and not only dealt with the internal matters of the church, but all aspects of morality (adultery), marriage, inheritance, etc: presbyterian church established in scotland. Calvinism is a huge influence in scotland: non-conformists, presbyterians did want a state church. Freedom to practice their religion as they saw fit. Most things not allowed to do on sundays. Swearing and cursing act; fine anyone and people could be whipped. In practice, rigid morality rules were not very successful or imposed: oliver cromwell. God had provided england with certain people to fulfill god"s message and you"re on his mission, part of the select.
