PURITANISM

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PURITANISMPURITANS
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WHO ARE PURITANS ?

• It developed In the 16th century
• Is a way to consider Christianity.
• It consist of a movement of people who wanted
  religious, moral and social reforms.
• They wanted to purify their national
• It became, during the 17th century much popular.

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PURITANISMS CONVICTIONS

• SALVATION
• Personal salvation was entirely from God
• They believe in salvation and act in order to
  reach it
• THE BIBLE
• The Bible provided the indispensable guide to
  life
• It was Gods true law, supreme authority
• THE CHURCH
• The church should reflect the express teaching of
  Scripture
• The church should be organized from Scripture.
• They aim at purifying it

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PURITANISMS CONVICTIONS

• RELIGION
• Should be very pure
• Belive in the importance of personal religious
  experience
• THE SOCIETY
• God had sanctioned the solidarity of society
• Society was one unified whole.

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THE PARABLE OF TALENTS

• Man has to improve exploiting the talent that god
  gave to all of human beeings.

God gaves everyone a different skill. In that
skill you are predestinate
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RESTORATION AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
1660-1798
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• Elizabeth I died in 1603

James I came to the trone
The principal problems in his reign were
1.The Crowns financial position
2. Conflics between Puritans and religious
conservatives
All this things made him unpopular
3. Between monarch and parliament
His courth was disorderly, indecorous and in
constant financial crisis
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• In 1625 Carles I (Jamess son) succeeded to the
  trone

He was temperate, chaste and serious
He believed in the divine rights of Kings
alienated Parliament with his autocratic
behaviour
In 1642 the conflicts with the Parliament arrived
at a crisis The first of the wars between King
and Parliament began
At the trial the king was beheaded 30 january
1649
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• Charles II a powerless king with an easy morality
  court

England need social stability after 20 years of
civil war
Were born 2 news political parties
Tories supported the King. conservative
values
Whigs more progressive and tollerant
1660/1700 new kind of society. Middle class and
protestant.
Stability, self-interest, respectability
Charles II died in 1685 with no legitimate
children
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3 difficult years
James II (1685-1688)

• He attacked the church
• Appointed Catholics to important public positions
  
• He fought with parliament
• He abdicated the throne
• He fled to France

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James daughter

• William of Orange and Mary (1688-early 1700s)

• Pro-Protestant and anti-French
• Their takeover was called Glorious/Bloodless
  Revolution
• They established a relationship between the Crown
  and Parliament
• Brought about the Revolution Settlement

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ARTS IN THE 17 CENTURY
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POETRY

• SECULAR

• RELIGIOUS

• ANDREW MARVELL (political, possionate,love,
  transience)
• JOHN MILTON (epic tradition)
• They celebrated triumphs of the commonwealth
  supporting religious toleration and republicanism

• CAVALiER poets
• They celebrates the courtly ideasl of good life
  in a reckless, antipuritans and easy.going mood
  whose themes were transience, love and
  seiza-the-day attitude

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MASQUE
Was an allegorical theatrical form in which the
spectacular and musical elements predominated
over plot and character.
Simbols expressed in songs,verse and dances
Were intended to glorify the court
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1642 puritan closure of the theatreswhen the
theatres were reopened

• RESTORATION DRAMA

The new commedy was free from the constraints of
puritans morality
Sex Sexual attraction Sexual intrigue Fashion Mone
y Gossip
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SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY

• 1. FRANCIS BACON experiment and direct
  observation of nature.

2. THOMAS HOBBES all sensation are just motions
of matter and man is a selfish entity.
3. JOHN LOCKE the father of empiricism . There
are things that cannot be known
4. ISAAC NEWTON he formulated a personal
scientific method. He delt with the law of gravity