Charitable Hatred : Tolerance And Intolerance in England, 1500-1700

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi LIST OF FIGURES xiii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xv 1 Introduction 1(38) Approaches to the history of tolerance and intolerance 6(7) The long Reformation 13(7) Religious minorities in England 1500-1700 20(6) Silences, distortions and optical illusions: the problem of the sources 26(13) 2 Fraternal correction and holy violence: the pursuit of uniformity and the enforcement of religious orthodoxy 39(67) The theology of religious intolerance 40(9) The rise of the Erastian state and the ideal of a national Church 49(7) The parameters and politics of persecution 56(10) Spiritual sanctions and corporal penalties 66(40) 3 Godly zeal and furious rage: prejudice, persecution and the populace 106(54) Barbarous behaviour and uncivil con duct 108(12) Ritual and verbal violence 120(9) Incentives for action and occasions for conflict 129(11) The targets of intolerance: the social profile of the persecuted 140(20) 4 Living amidst hostility: responses to intolerance 160(68) Taking up the cross of Christ: martyrdom 162(15) Grasping the sword and fleeing the plague: resistance and exile 177(11) Strategies for survival and ways of lying: conformity and dissimulation 188(19) The cohabitation of the faithful with the unfaithful 207(21) 5 Loving one's neighbours: tolerance in principle and practice 228(72) Advocates and arguments 232(15) Official edicts and political initiatives 247(22) The tolerance of practical rationality 269(11) The consequences of toleration 280(20) 6 Coexisting with difference: religious pluralism and confessionalisation 300(29) Confessionalisation and the European Reformations 302(3) Separation and assimilation, introversion and integration 305(10) The rise of a denominational society? 315(14) SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY SOURCES 329(21) INDEX 350