Description: This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in more than half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history. Introduced with a survey of concepts and theory, it moves on to examine the practice of toleration at the time of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts, the Puritan Revolution and the Restoration. The seventeenth century emerges as a turning point after which, for the first time, a good Christian society also had to be a tolerant one.
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"a fine book with a fresh and bracing momentum...enhances our understanding of early modern persecution and tolerance" - William Gibson, H-Net Reviews
"This very well-written book also includes some nice topical allusions" - English Historical Review
"admirably lucid and compact...a text with much on offer to students of denominational history" - Albion