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.
- | Author: Ole Peter Grell
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Nov 23, 2006
- | Number of Pages: 284 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521032164
- | ISBN-13: 9780521032162
