A Cultural History of Tolerance

Ideas, Conflicts, and Protagonists
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-83535-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Ideas beyond Borders

Covering the entire European system and its relations with the East and America, this first global history of tolerance in early modern Europe describes how the ideal of tolerance and its realisation transformed both the religious and political life of the modern world.

In the sixteenth century, Christianity was split apart by the Lutheran revolt, a fracture which would become a political one. Erasmus, Castellion, and the Socinians defended the freedom of conscience and of faith, and the right to belong to a heretical church. The violent political clashes in France, Holland and Great Britain seemed to make the latter impossible, as the relationship between religion and politics was at the centre of those conflicts. The theory of a new politics was devised by Hobbes and developed by Spinoza and Locke: Sovereignty was not to be religious but secular, and tolerance would become civil liberty. A Cultural History of Tolerance shows how political power and religious doctrine together shaped both persecution and emerging ideas of tolerance, laying the groundwork for later debates.

This book is intended for professors, academic researchers, students, and general readers interested in early modern Europe, political ideas, and the history of religion.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Imbruglia, Girolamo

Felici, Lucia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Background: The Genesis of the Idea of Tolerance from the Gospel Age to the Middle Ages  Part I: The 16th and 17th Centuries  1. From Catholic Unity to the Multiplicity of Worlds 2. Religious Freedom and Tolerance in the Age of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation 3. Practising Coexistence, Theorising Tolerance 4. The 17th Century: From Religious Tolerance to Modern Freedom  Part II: From Religious Toleration to Political Freedom  5. The 17th Century: Community, Civic Religion, and the Need for Toleration 6. The 17th Century: The Strength of Faith 7. The 17th Century: Tolerance and Sovereignty 8. The 18th Century: Holland, Germany, and Empire 9. The 18th Century: After the Glorious Revolution – Great Britain 10. The 18th Century: France 11. The 18th Century: The American Revolution and Diderot

Über Autor(innen)

Lucia Felici is Professor of Modern History at the University of Florence. Her research interests concern the religious, cultural, and social history of Early Modern Europe. Among her recent publications are: Senza frontiere: L’Europa di Erasmo (1538-1600) (2021); La Livornina: Alle origini di Livorno, città cosmopolita in età moderna (ed.; 2024) and Olimpia Fulvia Morata: Una vita tra Rinascimento e Riforma (2024).

Girolamo Imbruglia is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University ‘L’Orientale’. His research interests concern the history of political ideas and the history of Christianity in Early Modern Europe. Among his recent publications are: The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568–1789) (2017), Utopia. Una storia politica da Savonarola a Babeuf (2021), and ‘Fausto Sozzini, la teoria del sacrificio e il socinianesimo’ (2021).