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Article: Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689. John Coffey. Longman. [pound]17.99 p.b. 244 pages. ISBN 0-582-30464-4. This volume is the first survey of this topic since W. K. Jordan's Development of Religious Toleration in England published between 1932-40. While the author accepts the traditional Whig view that seventeenth-century England 'did indeed witness a dramatic movement from persecution to toleration and from religious uniformity to pluralism', he also shows how powerful was religious intolerance in the period under discussion. Because intelligent people have little time for ...
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