Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689

This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in more than half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political religious and cultural history. Introduced with a survey of concepts and theory it moves on to examine the practice of toleration at the time of Elizabeth I and the Stuarts the Puritan Revolution and the Restoration. The seventeenth century emerges as a turning point after which for the first time a good Christian society also had to be a tolerant one. <br>