Allen\'s work is a rather extreme example of the "country community" school of seventeenth-century English history whose intemperate excesses in removing all national issues from the history of that period have been exposed by Professor Clive Holmes. What conclusion can be drawn, for example, from Allen\'s discovery that Puritan clergy who had come to the colonies from East Anglia were one-third to one-half as likely to return to England by 1660 as were Puritan ministers from western and northern England? We are not told in what way, if at all, this discovery illuminates historical understanding. Studies of local history have enormously expanded our horizons, but it is a mistake for their authors to conclude that village institutions are all that mattered, simply because their functions are all that the records of village institutions reveal.
文章概况:第一段开头说有一个家伙研究社区,这个家伙的研究还是比较考谱的。后面详细谈了一些研究的内容,大概围绕的农业和行政组织谈的,但后面又说他的这个研究有些不对劲的地方。第二段开始详细叙述有几个地方不对劲,一共列举了四点。而第三段开始说这个家伙的研究有哪些意义。
Question According to the passage, which of the following was true of most villages in seventeenth-century England?
(A) The resident squire had significant authority.
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