Toleration in Enlightenment Europe

by Ole Peter Grell, Roy Porter

Overview

The Enlightenment is often seen as the great age of religious and intellectual toleration, and this volume is the first systematic pan-European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to toleration in eighteenth century Europe. A powerful 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 precondition for a civilized society. Despite this, advances in toleration remained fragile and often short-lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521651967
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/02/1999
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Toleration in Enlightenment Europe Ole Peter Grell and Roy Porter; 2. Toleration and the Enlightenment movement Martin Fitzpatrick; 3. Multiculturalism and ethnic cleansing in the Enlightenment Robert Wokler; 4. Intolerance, the virtue of Princes and Radicals Sylvana Tomaselli; 5. Spinoza, Locke and the Enlightenment battle for toleration Jonathan I. Israel; 6. Toleration and Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic Ernestine van der Wall; 7. Toleration and citizenship in Enlightenment England: John Toland and the naturalisation of the Jews, 1714–53 Justin Champion; 8. Citizenship and religious toleration in France Marisa Linton; 9. A tolerant society? Religious toleration in the Holy Roman Empire, 1648–1806 Joachim Whaley; 10. Enlightenment in the Habsburg Monarchy: history of a belated and short-lived phenomenon Karl Vocelka; 11. Toleration in Eastern Europe: the dissident question in eighteenth-century Poland-Lithuania Michael G. Müller; 12. Toleration in Enlightenment Italy Nicholas Davidson; 13. Inquisition, tolerance and liberty in eighteenth-century Spain Henry Kamen; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...a valuable conference, certainly well-prepared and well-presented that deserved publication. It will be a reliable reference on the issues." The Catholic Historical Review

"This work is the third volume in a series on toleration.... A student of toleration could hardly do better than to consult these three volumes." Canadian Journal of Political Science

"These well-written essays are accessible for undergraduates and will be particularly welcomed by historians of European intellectual and religious history." Philop F. Riley, History

"This is a good survey of both the theory and practice of toleration in eighteenth-century Europe....the papers stick closely to the main theme of tolerance, giving the volume an internal coherence that is often lacking in published conference papers." H-Net Reviews

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