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 ...

The Puritans, while they strongly opposed unmarried sex, celebrated marital sex, ... that at least one husband in Puritan New England was excommunicated by his church for sexually neglecting his wife.

In England and her American colonies, the Puritans banned the celebration of Christmas in the 1600s. (photo: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, “The Flight into Egypt”, c. 1655-1660) Stephanie Mann ...

Lori Stokes is an independent scholar who studies the founding decades of Puritan New England and Congregational church history. As Thanksgiving approaches, Americans look back on the first ...

Delving further into Puritan culture and society, Morgan also presents a number of interesting tidbits from Richard Godbeer's book "Sexual Revolution in Early America" in his essay "Those Sexy ...