1st Edition
Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689
By John Coffey
Copyright 2000
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history. The seventeenth century is traditionally regarded as a period of expanding and extended liberalism, when superstition and received truth were overthrown. The book questions how far England moved towards... Read more
List of tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Protestant Theory o f Persecution 3. The Protestant Theory of Toleration 4. Elizabeth I and Protestant Unform ity, 1 5 5 8 —1 6 0 3 5. The Early Stuarts, 1 6 0 3 - 4 0 6. The Puritan Revolution, 1 6 4 0 - 6 0 7. The Restoration, 1 6 6 0 —8 8 8. 1 6 8 9 and the R ise o f Toleration Glossary Select Bibliography Index
Biography
John Coffey is Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester.
"a fine book with a fresh and bracing momentum...enhances our understanding of early modern persecution and tolerance" – William Gibson, H-Net Reviews
"This very well-written book also includes some nice topical allusions" – English Historical Review
"admirably lucid and compact...a text with much on offer to students of denominational history" – Albion
