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Making Toleration : The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Historical StudiesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (415 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674075917
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making TolerationDDC classification:
  • 274.107
LOC classification:
  • BR757
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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