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Article: Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689. (Reviews of Books).
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- March 22, 2002
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John Coffey. Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689. (Studies in Modern History.) Essex: Pearson Education. 2000. Pp. xii, 244. $17.99. ISBN 0-582-30464-4.
In his introduction to this admirably lucid and compact textbook, John Coffey states that he has "trie[d] to provide the first survey of persecution and toleration in early modern England since W. K. Jordan, The Development of Religious Toleration in England" (p. xi). A scant 244 pages later, it is clear that Coffey's efforts have been successful. One-tenth the length of Jordan's magisterial work of the 1930s, Persecution and Toleration has not only updated its worthy predecessor, it has ...