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Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500–1700 (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain) - Softcover

Walsham, Alexandra

 
9780719052408: Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500–1700 (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719052408 ISBN 13: 9780719052408
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Charitable Hatred presents a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England.

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About the Author

Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Reformation History at the University of Exeter

From the Back Cover

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 which dissenting churches and groups responded and adapted to official and popular intolerance, investigating how the experience of suffering helped to forge sectarian identities. In analysing the consequences of the advancing pluralism of English society in the wake of the Reformation, this study illuminates the cultural processes that shaped and complicated the conditions of coexistence before and after the Act of Toleration of 1689.

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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 which dissenting churches and groups responded and adapted to official and popular intolerance, investigating how the experience of suffering helped to forge sectarian identities. In analysing the consequences of the advancing pluralism of English society in the wake of the Reformation, this study illuminates the cultural processes that shaped and complicated the conditions of coexistence before and after the Act of Toleration of 1689.

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0719052408
ISBN 13 
9780719052408
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
388