Puritan Revolution and the Law of Contracts

I just received a copy of Professor Scott Pryor and Glenn Hoshauer's article, Puritan Revolution and the Law of Contracts, published as part of a symposium on the 150th anniversary of Hadley v. Baxendale, 11 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 291 (2005). 

I haven't yet read the article but thought I would share with you part of the abstract:  "Most legal historians have ignored the impact of the Protestant Reformation and the rise of Puritianism on the development of the common law. ... The Authors conclude that Puritan theology was irrelevant to assumpit and consideration ... [T]he Puritan emphasis on discipline - personal, social, and ecclesiastical - [however] represents an independent source of inluence on the development of the common law of contracts.  The disciplined life grew in cultural significance with the Reformation and the subsequent process of confessionalization. ..."