Making Toleration : The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution.
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Intro -- Contents -- Note to Readers -- Introduction -- 1. Forming a Movement: James and the Repealers -- 2. Writing a New Magna Carta: The Ideology of Repeal -- 3. Fearing the Unknown: Anti-Popery and Its Limits -- 4. Taking Sides: The Three Questions Survey -- 5. Seizing Control: The Repealers in the Towns -- 6. Countering a Movement: The Seven Bishops Trial -- 7. Dividing a Nation: The Geography of Repeal -- 8. Dancing in a Ditch: Anti-Popery and the Revolution -- 9. Enacting Toleration: The Repealers and the Enlightenment -- Appendix: A List of Repealer Publications -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Manuscripts Consulted -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Though James II is often depicted as a Catholic despot who imposed his faith, Scott Sowerby reveals a king ahead of his time who pressed for religious toleration at the expense of his throne. The Glorious Revolution was in fact a conservative counter-revolution against the movement for enlightened reform that James himself encouraged and sustained.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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