{"product_id":"9781138144897","title":"Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 (Studies in Modern History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth century is traditionally regarded as a period of expanding and extended liberalism, when superstition and received truth were overthrown. The book questions how far England moved towards becoming a liberal society at that time and whether or not the end of the century crowned a period of progress, or if one set of intolerant orthodoxies had simply been replaced by another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book examines what toleration means now and meant then, explaining why some early modern thinkers supported persecution and how a growing number came to advocate toleration. Introduced with a survey of concepts and theory, the book then studies the practice of toleration at the time of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts, the Puritan Revolution and the Restoration. The seventeenth century emerges as a turning point after which, for the first time, a good Christian society also had to be a tolerant one. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePersecution and Toleration is a critical addition to the study of early modern Britain and to religious and political history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48729105105131,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":428.48,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781138144897-1.jpg?v=1781657237","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781138144897","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}