church the authorities had increasing difficulties to contend with from the puritans in these middle years of the reign: at their height from 1571 to 1584. The strength of puritanism was that it was the ideology, or if you prefer, the religion, of the forward-looking gentry and middle class." - Meaning and context.">
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(1943), Tudor Cornwall: Portrait of a Society, page: 333
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Within the church the authorities had increasing difficulties to contend with from the puritans in these middle years of the reign: at their height from 1571 to 1584. The strength of puritanism was that it was the ideology, or if you prefer, the religion, of the forward-looking gentry and middle class.

— A. L. Rowse

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Within the church the authorities had increasing difficulties to contend with from the puritans in these middle years of the reign: at their height from 1571 to 1584. The strength of puritanism was that it was the ideology, or if you prefer, the religion, of the forward-looking gentry and middle class." in the context of "(1943), Tudor Cornwall: Portrait of a Society, page: 333" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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A. L. Rowse

About A. L. Rowse

Alfred Leslie Rowse CH FBA FRSL FRHistS (4 December 1903 – 3 October 1997) was a British historian and author of books about England's Elizabethan era.