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Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the Puritans in New England during the 17th and 18th centuries, including their religion and views on the supernatural, working and home life, health and medicine, what it was like to grow up Puritan, and the legacy they left for future generations.
Series
Studies in the history of religions volume 133. Studies in the history of religions
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"This major new study is an exploration of the Elizabethan Puritan movement through the eyes of its most determined and relentless opponent, Richard Bancroft, later Archbishop of Canterbury. It analyses his obsession with the perceived threat to the stability of the church and state presented by the advocates of radical presbyterian reform. The book forensically examines Bancroft's polemical tracts and archive of documents and letters, casting important...
46) The puritans
Author
Series
American family portrait volume 1
Publisher
Victor Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta At once retrospective and radically new, The Scarlet Letter portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
Series
Elizabethan nonconformist texts volume Volume 1
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
54) Cotton Mather
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains why Mather's name has often been erroneously connected to the Salem witch-hunts.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1650s England, a young Puritan maiden is on a mission to save the baby of her newly widowed preacher--whether her assistance is wanted or not. Always ready to help those in need, Elizabeth ignores John's protests of her aid. She's even willing to risk her lone marriage prospect to help the little family. Yet Elizabeth's new role as nanny takes a dangerous turn when John's boldness from the pulpit makes him a target of political and religious leaders....
58) The witch
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A devoutly Christian family in 1630s New England, struggles to survive living along the edge of a vast wilderness. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of John Winthrop, religious leader and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who worked hard and passed groundbreaking new laws while trying to protect Puritan beliefs.
