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Online-Ressource
ISBN:
128389629X
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9780812205862
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9781283896290
Content:
Beyond the Persecuting Society constructs a history of toleration from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction: Political and Historical Myths in the Toleration Literature -- Part I. The Medieval Balance -- Introduction: Discourses and Contexts of Tolerance in Medieval Europe -- 1. Peter Abelard and the Enigma of Dialogue -- 2. Toleration, Skepticism, and the "Clash of Ideas": Principles of Liberty in the Writings of John of Salisbury -- 3. Ha-Me'iri's Theory of Religious Toleration -- Part II. The Long Sixteenth Century -- Introduction: The Transformations of the Long Sixteenth Century -- 4. "Heretics be not in all things heretics": Cardinal Pole, His Circle, and the Potential for Toleration -- 5. The Concept of Toleration in the Colloquium Heptaplomeres of Jean Bodin -- 6. Religious Coexistence and Confessional Conflict in the Vier Dörfer: Practices of Toleration in Eastern Switzerland, 1525-1615 -- Part III. The Seventeenth Century -- Introduction: Contexts and Paths to Toleration in the Seventeenth Century -- 7. Samuel von Pufendorf and Toleration -- 8. Baylean Liberalism: Tolerance Requires Nontolerance -- 9. "Religion Set the World at Odds": Deism and the Climate of Religious Tolerance in the Works of Aphra Behn -- 10. Skepticism About Religion and Millenarian Dogmatism: Two Sources of Toleration in the Seventeenth Century -- 11. The Problem of Toleration in the New Israel: Religious Communalism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Contributors.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""General Introduction: Political and Historical Myths in the Toleration Literature""; ""Part I. The Medieval Balance""; ""Introduction: Discourses and Contexts of Tolerance in Medieval Europe""; ""1. Peter Abelard and the Enigma of Dialogue""; ""2. Toleration, Skepticism, and the ""Clash of Ideas"": Principles of Liberty in the Writings of John of Salisbury""; ""3. Ha-Me'iri's Theory of Religious Toleration""; ""Part II. The Long Sixteenth Century""; ""Introduction: The Transformations of the Long Sixteenth Century""
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""4. ""Heretics be not in all things heretics"": Cardinal Pole, His Circle, and the Potential for Toleration""""5. The Concept of Toleration in the Colloquium Heptaplomeres of Jean Bodin""; ""6. Religious Coexistence and Confessional Conflict in the Vier Dörfer: Practices of Toleration in Eastern Switzerland, 1525-1615""; ""Part III. The Seventeenth Century""; ""Introduction: Contexts and Paths to Toleration in the Seventeenth Century""; ""7. Samuel von Pufendorf and Toleration""; ""8. Baylean Liberalism: Tolerance Requires Nontolerance""
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""9. ""Religion Set the World at Odds"": Deism and the Climate of Religious Tolerance in the Works of Aphra Behn""""10. Skepticism About Religion and Millenarian Dogmatism: Two Sources of Toleration in the Seventeenth Century""; ""11. The Problem of Toleration in the New Israel: Religious Communalism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Contributors""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812215670
Additional Edition:
Print version Beyond the Persecuting Society : Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment
Language:
English
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