"Beyond the Persecuting Society" constructs a history of toleration
from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. There is a
myth--easily shattered--that Western societies since the
Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the
differences between individuals and groups, and another--too
readily accepted--that before the rise of secularism in the modern
period, intolerance and persecution held sway throughout Europe. In
"Beyond the Persecuting Society" John Christian Laursen, Cary J.
Nederman, and nine other scholars dismantle this second
generalization. If intolerance and religious persecution have been
at the root of some of the greatest suffering in human history, it
is nevertheless the case that toleration was practiced and
theorized in medieval and early modern Europe on a scale few have
realized: Christians and Jews, the English, French, Germans, Dutch,
Swiss, Italians, and Spanish had their proponents of and
experiments with tolerance well before John Locke penned his famous
Letter Concerning Toleration. Moving from Abelard to Aphra Behn,
from the apology for the gentiles of the fourteenth-century
Talmudic scholar, Menahem ben Solomon Ha-MeIiri, to the rejection
of intolerance in the "New Israel" of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
Beyond the Persecuting Society offers a detailed and decisive
correction to a vision of the past as any less complex in its
embrace and abhorrence of diversity than the present. In addition
to the editors, contributors are Detlef Dering, Arlen Feldwick,
Randolph C. Head, Marion Leathers Kuntz, Thomas F. Mayer, Constant
J. Mews, Richard Popkin, Gary Remer, and H. Frank Way. ""Beyond the
Persecuting Society" confronts the myth that there was no general
conception or practice of religious toleration before the
Enlightenment. . . . It is the great strength of this collection
that the diversity and richness of the often tentative allowance
for confessional pluralism can be documented at times when unity of
faith was seen as no less necessary than unity of
obedience."--"Albion" John Christian Laursen is Associate Professor
of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside,
and author of "The Politics of Skepticism in the Ancients,
Montaigne, Hume and Kant." Cary J. Nederman is Associate Professor
of Political Science at the University of Arizona and author of
"Community and Consent: The Secular Political Theory of Marsiglio
of Padua's "Defensor Pacis.""
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