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Histories of Heresy in Early Modern Europe : For, Against, and Beyond Persecution and Toleration / edited by John Christian Laursen

New York ; s.l. : Palgrave Macmillan US ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

1 Online-Ressource (XI, 290 p)

Englisch

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978-0-230-10749-6

978-1-349-63456-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/9780230107496

B108-5802

180-190 ; 109     Ähnliche Literatur

bicssc: HPC ; bisacsh: PHI009000

LOC-SH: History ; Political theory ; Political philosophy ; Philosophy ; Religion -- History ; History, Modern ; Political science. ; Political science ; Science

Toleration of differing religious ideas exists in parts of the contemporary world, but it is still not clear how this came about. Recent work has uncovered the enormous importance one branch of historiography has had in bringing about such tolerance as we have: histories of heresy. This book brings together experts in this field in order to attempt to map out the contours and features of the influence of these histories on early modern and modern conceptions of toleration. Perhaps by showing heretics and heresies to be more benign than once thought, these histories could tease tolerance from the intolerant. The essays in this book attempt to piece together the intentions and effects of key works from this literature in the promotion or rejection of toleration in theory and practice