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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
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0812215672
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0812205863
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081223331X
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9780812215670
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9780812205862
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9780812233315
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"There is a Myth - easily shattered - that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and another - too readily accepted - that before the rise of secularism in the modern period, intolerance and persecution held sway throughout Europe. In Beyond the Persecuting Society John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman, and nine other scholars dismantle this second generalization. If intolerance and religious persecution have been at the root of some of the greatest suffering in human history, it is nevertheless the case that toleration was practiced and theorized in medieval and early modern Europe on a scale few have realized."--BOOK JACKET. "Beyond the Persecuting Society constructs a mosaic of pieces of the history of toleration in the Middle Ages, the long sixteenth century, and the seventeenth century. Christians and Jews, the English, French, Germans, Dutch, Swiss, Italians, and Spanish had their proponents of and experiments with tolerance well before John Locke penned his famous Letter Concerning Toleration, the authors demonstrate. Moving from Abelard to Aphra Behn, from the apology for the gentiles of the fourteenth-century Talmudic scholar Menahem ben Solomon Ha-Me'iri to the rejection of intolerance in the "New Israel" of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Beyond the Persecuting Society offers a detailed and decisive correction to a vision of the past as any less complex in its embrace and abhorrence of diversity than the present."--Jacket
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Concept of toleration in the Colloquium Heptaplomeres of Jean Bodin
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Introduction: discourses and contexts of tolerance in medieval Europe
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Skepticism about religion and millenarian dogmatism: two sources of toleration in the seventeenth century
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Religious coexistence and confessional conflict in the Vier Dorfer: practices of toleration in Eastern Switzerland, 1525-1615
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Introduction: contexts and paths to toleration in the seventeenth century
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Samuel von Pufendorf and toleration
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Baylean liberalism: tolerance requires nontolerance
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"Religion set the world at odds"; deism and the climate of religious tolerance in the works of Aphra Behn
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Peter Abelard and the enigma of dialogue
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Toleration, skepticism, and the "clash of ideas": principles of liberty in the writings of John of Salisbury
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Ha-Me'iri's theory of religious toleration
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Introduction: the transformations of the long sixteenth century
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"Heretics be not in all things heretics": Cardinal Pole, his circle, and the potential for toleration
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Problem of toleration in the New Israel: religious communalism in seventeenth-century Massachusetts
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 081223331X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812233315
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0812215672
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812215670
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Beyond the persecuting society Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1998
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Theology
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Author information:
Laursen, John Christian 1952-
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