John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture |
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Author:
| Marshall, John |
Contribution by:
| Fletcher, Anthony Guy, John Morrill, John |
Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-65114-1 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2006 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $207.00 |
Book Description:
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This book is a major new intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern and early Enlightenment Europe. John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in Europe and of the arguments which John Locke made in defence of 'universal religious toleration'. This study is a significant contribution to the history of the 'republic of letters' of the 1680s and will be essential reading for...
More DescriptionThis book is a major new intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern and early Enlightenment Europe. John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in Europe and of the arguments which John Locke made in defence of 'universal religious toleration'. This study is a significant contribution to the history of the 'republic of letters' of the 1680s and will be essential reading for scholars of early modern European history, religion, political science, and philosophy.