Toleration in Enlightenment Europe

by Edited by Ole Peter Grell , Roy Porter

• ISBN13: 9780521651967
• ISBN10: 0521651964
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Enlightenment is often seen as the great age of religious and intellectual toleration, and this volume is the first systematic pan-European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to toleration in eighteenth century Europe. A powerful team of contributors demonstrate how the publicists of the European Enlightenment developed earlier ideas about toleration, gradually widening the desire for religious toleration into a philosophy of freedom seen as a fundamental precondition for a civilized society. Despite this, advances in toleration remained fragile and often short-lived.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Toleration in Enlightenment Europe	1	(22)
Ole Peter Grell
Roy Porter
Toleration and the Enlightenment Movement	23	(46)
Martin FitzpaTrick
Multiculturalism and Ethnic Cleansing in the Enlightenment	69	(17)
Robert Wokler
Intolerance, the Virtue of Princes and Radicals	86	(16)
Sylvana Tomaselli
Spinoza, Locke and the Enlightenment Battle for Toleration	102	(12)
Jonathan I. Israel
Toleration and Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic	114	(19)
Ernestine van der Wall
Toleration and Citizenship in Enlightenment England: John Toland and the Naturalization of the Jews, 1714--1753	133	(24)
Justin Champion
Citizenship and Religious Toleration in France	157	(18)
Marisa Linton
A Tolerant Society? Religious Toleration in the Holy Roman Empire, 1648--1806	175	(21)
Joachim Whaley
Enlightenment in the Habsburg Monarchy: History of a Belated and Short-Lived Phenomenon	196	(16)
Karl Vocelka
Toleration in Eastern Europe: the Dissident Question in Eighteenth-Century Poland--Lithuania	212	(18)
Michael G. Muller
Toleration in Enlightenment Italy	230	(20)
Nicholas Davidson
Inquisition, Tolerance and Liberty in Eighteenth-Century Spain	250	(9)
Henry Kamen
Index	259