CHARITABLE HATRED: TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE IN ENGLAND, 1500-1700.
Series: POLITICS, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN
Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS
Published: 2006
Place of publication: MANCHESTER, UK
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 364
Description: "Charitable hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models that chart a linear path 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."--Jacket.