Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689

This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in more than half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history. Introduced with a survey of concepts and theory, it moves on to examine 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.


Author: John Coffey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/06/2000
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780582304642

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 18

About the Author

John Coffey is Lecturer in History at the University of Leicester.