Daniel Neal and the 'Puritan Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3283309 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laird Okie (Ottawa University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 456-467 |
| Publication date | 1986-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3166368 |
| OpenAlex | W2125699833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
Daniel Neal's The History of the Puritans was a standard eighteenth-century source for modern historians and, as will be shown, prefigured nineteenth-century Whig conceptions of Puritanism. Published in four volumes between 1732 and 1738, Neal's work went through at least twenty-one editions or reprints; the last one was done in 1863. New editions were printed in London, Bath, Dublin, New York, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the History was twice expanded by continuators in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. The History of the Puritans was not a narrowly religious or sectarian study: Neal strove to elucidate the Puritan contribution to the state. A Congregationalist minister, Neal produced the closest thing we have to an official Dissenting history of England, one which glorified the role of Puritanism in fostering English liberty. To study Neal's History is to gain insight into the historical and political ideology of early eighteenth-century Dissent
Ancient history · Dissent · Dissenting opinion · History of England · Ideology · Political science · Politics · State (computer science) · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Classics · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2013 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |