GCSE; WJEC; Puritanism in the Elizabethan age - WJEC Background – Puritanism. The Religious Settlement of 1559 brought stability to Wales and England. However, some extreme Protestants called ...

Puritans feared that plays distracted people from God and took them away from Sunday services. ... Starvation was a very real fear for the ordinary people of Elizabethan England.

Puritanism reflected the unhappiness of English Protestants in the Elizabethan age who saw the Church of England as insufficiently Protestant. They wanted a purified church where each Christian ...

So, Puritans and Pilgrims came out of the same religious culture of 1570s England. They diverged in the early 1600s, but wound up 70 years later being one and the same in the New World.

A 32-foot Christmas tree stands in Salisbury Cathedral in England. In the 17th century, churches across the country were forbidden from decking the halls for Christmas—which Puritans rejected as ...

A devastating outcome of Puritan cultural dominance and prejudice was King Philip’s War in 1675-76. Massachusetts Bay Colony feared that Wampanoag chief Metacom – labeled by Puritans “King Philip” – ...