LEADER 04529nam a2200397 a 4500001 SCSB-3558002 003 NNC 005 20220615201947.0 008 970619t19981998pau b 001 0 eng 009 2090375 010 97026795 020 081223331X (alk. paper) 020 0812215672 (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 (OCoLC)37211323 035 (OCoLC)ocm37211323 035 |9ANB9256CU 035 (NNC)2090375 035 2090375 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dNNC |dOrLoB-B 050 00 BR1610 |b.B48 1998 082 00 291.1/772/09 |221 245 00 Beyond the persecuting society : |breligious toleration before the Enlightenment / |cedited by John Christian Laursen and Cary J. Nederman. 260 Philadelphia : |bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, |c[1998], ©1998. 300 vi, 288 pages ; |c23 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |tGeneral Introduction: Political and Historical Myths in the Toleration Literature / |rJohn Christian Laursen and Cary J. Nederman -- |gPt. I. |tThe Medieval Balance -- |tIntroduction: Discourses and Contexts of Tolerance in Medieval Europe / |rCary J. Nederman. |g1. |tPeter Abelard and the Enigma of Dialogue / |rConstant J. Mews. |g2. |tToleration, Skepticism, and the "Clash of Ideas": Principles of Liberty in the Writings of John Salisbury / |rCary J. Nederman. |g3. |tHa-Me'iri's Theory of Religious Toleration / |rGary Remer -- |gPt. II. |tThe Long Sixteenth Century -- |tIntroduction: The Transformation of the Long Sixteenth Century / |rRandolph C. Head. |g4. |t"Heretics be not in all thing heretics": Cardinal Pole, His Circle, and the Potential for Toleration / |rThomas F. Mayer. |g5. |tThe Concept of Toleration in the Colloquium Heptaplomeres of Jean Bodin / |rMarion Leathers Kuntz. 505 80 |g6. |tReligious Coexistence and Confessional Conflict in the Vier Dorfer: Practices of Toleration in Eastern Switzerland, 1525-1615 / |rRandolph C. Head -- |gPt. III. |tThe Seventeenth Century -- |tIntroduction: Contexts and Paths to Toleration in the Seventeenth Century / |rJohn Christian Laursen. |g7. |tSamuel von Pufendorf and Toleration / |rDetlef Doring. |g8. |tBaylean Liberalism: Tolerance Requires Nontolerance / |rJohn Chritian Laursen. |g9. |t"Religion Set the World at Odds": Deism and the Climate of Religious Tolerance in the Works of Aphra Behn / |rArlen Feldwick and Cary J. Nederman. |g10. |tSkepticism About Religion and Millenarian Dogmatism: Two Sources of Toleration in the Seventeenth Century / |rRichard H. Popkin. |g11. |tThe Problem of Toleration in the New Israel: Religious Communalism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts / |rH. Frank Way. 520 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. 520 8 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. 520 8 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. 520 8 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. 650 0 Religious tolerance |xHistory. 700 1 Laursen, John Christian. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92073108 700 1 Nederman, Cary J. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88291813 852 00 |hBR1610 .B48 1998 |03561211 |bscsbcul 876 |035612115306778 |h |jAvailable |pCU65485050 |t1 |xShared |zCU |lRECAP