Beyond the Persecuting Society : Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment.

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.

Beyond the Persecuting Society constructs a history of toleration from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century.

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