This book offers a new thematic overview of sixteenth and seventeenth-century religious history, focusing on the history of religious dissent and its treatment. It treats dissenting groups comparatively rather than separately (this denominational approach has dominated), and avoids distorting linear models of progress 'from persecution to toleration' which have hitherto dominated the historiography. It weaves together different approaches to the topic and forges an original link between them: intellectual, legal, political, ecclesiastical, social cultural.
- ISBN10 0719052394
- ISBN13 9780719052392
- Publish Date 1 March 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 May 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English