From Persecution to Toleration : The Glorious Revolution and Religion in England Hardback
Edited by Ole Peter (, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Cambridge) Grell, Jonathan I. (Professor of Dutch History and Institutions, Professor of Dutch History and Ins Israel, Nicholas (Senior Lecturer in History, Senior Lecturer in History, University College London) Tyacke
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This book examines the importance of the Glorious Revolution and the passing of the Toleration Act to the development of religious and intellectual freedom in England.
Most historians have considered these events to be of little significance in this connection.
From Persecution to Toleration focuses on the importance of the Toleration Act for contemporaries, and also explores its wider historical context and impact.
Taking its point of departure from the intolerance of the sixteenth century, the book goes on to emphasize what is here seen to be the very substantial contribution of the Toleration Act for the development of religious freedom in England.
It demonstrates that his freedom was initially limited to Protestant Nonconformists, immigrant as well as English, and that it quickly came in practice to include Catholics, Jews, and anti-Trinitarians. Contributors: John Bossy, Patrick Collinson, John Dunn, Graham Gibbs, Mark Goldie, Ole Peter Grell, Robin Gwynn, Jonathan I.
Israel, David S. Katz, Andrew Pettegree, Richard H. Popkin, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Nicholas Tyacke, and B. R. White.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:456 pages, frontispiece, 17 facsimiles, halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/05/1991
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- ISBN:9780198201960
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:456 pages, frontispiece, 17 facsimiles, halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/05/1991
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198201960
