As I contine my studies, the field that I have chosen is Puritanism. While reading Common-place, I noticed this remark:

The process of getting up to speed on the Puritans, to the point of feeling even vaguely comfortable writing about them, can be overwhelming. It requires a deep and painful immersion experience. The primary sources are voluminous, dense, and sometimes impenetrable. . . . The modern scholarship is pretty voluminous and dense as well, and although few contemporary scholars can match [Puritan writers] for opacity, it’s not for lack of effort.

In writing my paper last semester, my lack of reading in even the secondary sources was remarkable (and was remarked on). Clearly, I have a lot of reading ahead of me before I’m up to speed on the Puritans.