Toleration in Enlightenment Europe

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Toleration in Enlightenment Europe
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Ole Peter Grell
Edited by Roy Porter
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:284
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 152
Category/GenreWorld history - c 1750 to c 1900
ISBN/Barcode 9780521032162
ClassificationsDewey:940.2
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 23 November 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

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