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Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700
Alexandra Walsham
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Charitable Hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models charting a linear progress 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. Simultaneously, it surveys the range of ways in ... Read more
Charitable Hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models charting a linear progress 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. Simultaneously, it surveys the range of ways in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Condition
New
Weight
585g
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719052408
SKU
V9780719052408
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About Alexandra Walsham
Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Reformation History at the University of Exeter -- .
Reviews for Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700
Alexandra Walsham, with all her fresh insights and suggestions, never fails to be judicious. This thorough and original survey effectively realigns approaches to its subject.
Margaret Aston, Times Literary Supplement Alexandra Walsham, with all her fresh insights and suggestions, never fails to be judicious. This thorough and original survey effectively realigns approaches to its subject. ... Read more
Margaret Aston, Times Literary Supplement Alexandra Walsham, with all her fresh insights and suggestions, never fails to be judicious. This thorough and original survey effectively realigns approaches to its subject. ... Read more