The Oxford Handbook of Puritanism

Join us for a virtual program on the new Oxford Handbook of Puritanism, a collection of over thirty essays by leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic with new research on all aspects of English and North American puritanism. The volume includes such far-ranging topics as the geographies and chronologies of Puritanism, theology and practice, politics, society, culture, and modern representations.

Handbook editors Ann Hughes and Frank Bremer will begin the virtual program by talking about why puritanism continues to matter culturally and academically. Contributor Rachel Adcock will talk about her role on the contributions of women to shaping puritanism and Emerson Baker will share his research on witches in puritan culture.

This event is free and open to all, but registration is required via this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6217714178482/WN_2OuiyOGyQga1t15z4W3T0Q

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SPEAKER BIOS

Dr. Ann Hughes is retired from Keele University, where she worked as Professor of Early Modern History. Her research has focused on the political, religious, and cultural implications of the English civil war or Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century. My most recent concerns have been with in print culture and modes of communication, preaching, gender, and the complex engagements of men and women with the parliamentarian war-time state. Publications include Gender and the English Revolution (London, 2011); Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution (Oxford, 2004); and a co-edited edition of the works of Gerrard Winstanley (Oxford, 2009).

Dr. Francis J. Bremer is Professor Emeritus of History at Millersville University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting fellow at Oxford and Cambridge universities in England and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He is a former Board Member of the Congregational Library & Archives. He has published over two dozen books on puritanism in the Anglo-American world, including John Winthrop: America’s Forgotten Founding Father, Puritanism: A Very Short Introduction, and Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism. A fully revised, 50th anniversary edition of The Puritan Experiment: New England Society from Bradford to Edwards will be published this year.

Dr. Rachel Adcock is Reader in English Literature at Keele University, UK. Her research focuses on seventeenth-century women’s writing, Dissenting writing and culture, and textual studies, with a particular interest in the recovery of historically overlooked female writers. She has published widely on women’s contributions to shaping early Puritan theology and practice and her book, Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 (2015), was shortlisted for the Richard L. Greaves Prize in 2016. She is co-Editor of the journal Bunyan Studies: A Journal of Reformation and Nonconformist Culture and has served on the International John Bunyan Society committee for ten years.

Dr. Emerson “Tad” Baker is a professor of History at Salem State University and has previously served as vice provost and dean of the graduate school. He is the author or co-author of six books on the history and archaeology of early New England, including A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience and The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England. Baker has served as consultant and on-camera expert for historical documentaries and TV shows for networks ranging from PBS and TLC to Smithsonian and the History Channel.