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Toleration in Enlightenment Europe
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Toleration in Enlightenment Europe
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Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Ole Peter Grell
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Edited by Roy Porter
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:284 | Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | World history - c 1750 to c 1900 |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780521032162
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Classifications | Dewey:940.2 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
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Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
23 November 2006 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
The Enlightenment is often seen as the great age of religious and intellectual toleration, and this 1999 volume is a systematic European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to toleration in eighteenth-century Europe. A distinguished international team of contributors demonstrate how the publicists of the European Enlightenment developed earlier ideas about toleration, gradually widening the desire for religious toleration into a philosophy of freedom seen as a fundamental attribute and a precondition for a civilized society. Nonetheless Europe never uniformly or comprehensively embraced toleration during the eighteenth century: although religious toleration was central to the Enlightenment project, advances in toleration were often fragile and short-lived.
Reviews'This volume has some real insights to offer, and will rekindle interest in an issue which remains absolutely central to the enlightenment as a whole.' Thomas Munck, Journal of Ecclesiastical History
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