Difference and Dissent: Theories of Toleration in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Difference and Dissent: Theories of Toleration in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
ISBN-10
0847683761
ISBN-13
9780847683765
Category
History
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Authors
John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman

Description

This innovative collection points to the need for a reevaluation of the origins of toleration theory. Philosophers, intellectual historians, and political theorists have assumed that the development of the theory of toleration has been a product of the modern world, and John Locke is usually regarded as the first theorist of toleration. The contributors to Difference and Dissent, however, discuss a range of conceptual positions that were employed by medieval and early modern thinkers to support a theory of toleration, and question the claim that Locke's theory of toleration was as original or philosophically adequate as his adherents have asserted.

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