CHARITABLE HATRED: TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE IN ENGLAND, 1500-1700.

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"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.

subjects: History,  Religious tolerance,  Religious Dissenters,  Church history,  British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700,  Religious conflict,  Social history,  History: World,  History - General History,  United Kingdom, Great Britain,  Christianity - History - General,  Europe - Great Britain - General,  History / Great Britain,  Modern - 16th Century,  16th century,  17th century,  Dissenters, Religious,  England,  Dissenters, religious, england,  Great britain, church history, 16th century,  Great britain, church history, 17th century