• The country is governed with the Divine Right of King. (king=god)
• King Charles I tried to govern without the Parliaments. It irritated the Parliaments and led to The Civil War. (Cavaliers vs. Roundheads: Parliaments) The Parliaments won in the end.
• In that time, the Church of England was too wealthy, and the monks corrupted. The Puritans do not very please with that. However, King James insisted to keep the rites. As the results, some Puritans fled to USA, and some gathered up with the Parliaments to fight the king.
• The writings are influenced from the Bible. The tone becomes more reasoned, differently to Renaissance.
• Paradise lost is influenced from the civil war between King Charles I and the Parliaments in comparisons with Satan against God.