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This 6 page paper discusses the book “Wallington’s World” by Paul S. Seaver, and argues that Seaver’s purpose in compiling the Wallington papers was to show the importance of the man’s life “… not because he was a typical London Puritan artisan … but rather because what we know of early seventeenth-century artisans, Puritan or otherwise, is largely statistical in nature.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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uses Wallingtons writings to give readers insights into the social conditions of the time. It argues that Seavers purpose in compiling the Wallington papers was to show the importance of
the mans life "... not because he was a typical London Puritan artisan ... but rather because what we know of early seventeenth-century artisans, Puritan or otherwise, is largely statistical
in nature" (Seaver, 1985, p. 13). Wallingtons papers, on the other hand, offer historians the opportunity to "gain some insight" into the thinking of such an artisan about himself, his
familial relationships, and the society in which he lived (Seaver, 1985, p. 13). The book also shows us the extent to which religion was intertwined with daily life, to an
extent that is unthinkable today. Discussion We have a great deal of information about the 17th century from the point of view of kings, politicians and other public figures,
but its unusual to find an ordinary citizen who has written so much about his life and times. In the case of Wallington, his writing amount to approximately 2,600 pages
of various types of documents including memoirs and letters (Seaver, 1985). The amount of material he produced in his lifetime in itself sets him apart from other artisans; his extreme
sensitivity and intensive, relentless introspective self-examination also seems unusual. It was a habit of Puritans to examine themselves for traces of the ways in which they had sinned, but Wallingtons
self-scrutiny is excruciating in its detail at times. Seaver organizes the book chronologically so we can follow Wallington through his life. Doing that, we find that if he lived today,
we would probably want to bundle him off to therapy as quickly as possible. But Seaver and others would argue that its useless to try and judge Wallington by 21st
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