LEADER 03346nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910807680103321 005 20240418025314.0 010 $a1-283-89629-X 010 $a0-8122-0586-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205862 035 $a(CKB)3240000000068525 035 $a(EBL)3441923 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606905 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11355293 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606905 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581902 035 $a(PQKB)10687866 035 $a(OCoLC)605167333 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13434 035 $a(DE-B1597)449263 035 $a(OCoLC)979576714 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205862 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441923 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642675 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420879 035 $a(OCoLC)843077188 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441923 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000068525 100 $a19970619d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBeyond the persecuting society$b[electronic resource] $ereligious toleration before the Enlightenment /$fedited by John Christian Laursen and Cary J. Nederman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-1567-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. The medieval balance -- pt. 2. The long sixteenth century -- pt. 3. The seventeenth century. 330 $aThere is a myth?easily shattered?that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and another?too readily accepted?that before the rise of secularism in the modern period, intolerance and persecution held sway throughout Europe. In Beyond the Persecuting Society John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman, and nine other scholars dismantle this second generalization.If intolerance and religious persecution have been at the root of some of the greatest suffering in human history, it is nevertheless the case that toleration was practiced and theorized in medieval and early modern Europe on a scale few have realized: Christians and Jews, the English, French, Germans, Dutch, Swiss, Italians, and Spanish had their proponents of and experiments with tolerance well before John Locke penned his famous Letter Concerning Toleration. Moving from Abelard to Aphra Behn, from the apology for the gentiles of the fourteenth-century Talmudic scholar, Menahem ben Solomon Ha-MeIiri, to the rejection of intolerance in the "New Israel" of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Beyond the Persecuting Society offers a detailed and decisive correction to a vision of the past as any less complex in its embrace and abhorrence of diversity than the present. 606 $aReligious tolerance$xHistory 615 0$aReligious tolerance$xHistory. 676 $a291.1/772/09 701 $aLaursen$b John Christian$0281608 701 $aNederman$b Cary J$0281610 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807680103321 996 $aBeyond the persecuting society$94066395 997 $aUNINA