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Toleration in Enlightenment Europe

By Roy Porter , Ole Peter Grell

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0521032164, 9780521032162
Open Library ID
OL7714867M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1911529 bytes)
Pages
284\281
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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