Charitable hatred : tolerance and intolerance in England, 1500-1700
"Charitable hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models that chart a linear path from persecution to toleration, it emphasises instead the complex interplay between these two impulses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book examines the intellectual assumptions that underpinned attitudes towards religious minorities and the institutional structures and legal mechanisms by which they were both repressed and accommodated. It also explores the social realities of prejudice and forbearance, hostility and harmony at the level of the neighbourhood and parish."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, Manchester, New York, 2006
Church history
xv, 364 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780719052392, 9780719052408, 0719052394, 0719052408
62533086
1. Introduction
2. Fraternal correction and holy violence: the pursuit of uniformity and the enforcement of religious orthodoxy
3. Godly zeal and furious rage: prejudice, persecution and the populace
4. Living amidst hostility: responses to intolerance
5. Loving one's neighbours: tolerance in principle and practice
6. Coexisting with difference: religious pluralism and confessionalisation
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