What They Left Behind: The English Politics the Puritans Rejected

The tyranny of Charles I, royal prerogative and decrees, arbitrary taxation, entrenched inequality – all this and more the Puritans tossed overboard as their ships set sail not just for what was for them a new world, but a new polity. Award-winning historian David Hall, Harvard Divinity School, explores the politics of 17th century England and the political context that drove the Puritans to make their political choices.

Speaker David Hall is professor emeritus of American religious history at Harvard Divinity School. His books include Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England; A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England; and The Faithful Shepherd: A History of the New England Ministry in the Seventeenth Century. His latest book is The Puritans: A Transatlantic History

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Part of the Tyranny vs Liberty: 17th C. New England Politics collection.

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