Puritans, Dissenters, and their Church Books: Recording and Representing Experience

• Published in: Bunyan studies Vol. 20; no. 20; pp. 14 - 32
• Main Authors: Burden, Mark, Dunan-Page, Anne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2016; The International John Bunyan Society
• Series: Dissenting Hands
• Subjects: 17th century; Ambiguity; Archives & records; Beliefs; Biographies; British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Children; Deaths; Deception; English literature; Epistolography; Handwriting; History; Humanities and Social Sciences; Libraries; Literary devices; Literature; Logic; Narratives; Person; Puritanism; Religions; Religious congregations; Religious organizations; Society; Church books; Seventeenth Century Ireland; Dissenters; Baptist Churches; Congregationalists; Seventeenth Century England; Nonconformity

This article defines British and Irish Church books and records in relation to minutes, registers, ministerial diaries and other seventeenth-Century Dissenting documents