Though James II is often depicted as a Catholic despot who imposed his faith, Scott Sowerby reveals a king ahead of his time who pressed for religious toleratio

Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhap

Major intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern Enlightenment Europe.

Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important inter

This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, r