John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture

by John Marshall, John Guy (Editor), Anthony Fletcher (Editor)

John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in England, Ireland, France, Piedmont and the Netherlands and of the arguments which John Locke and his associates made in defence of 'universal religious toleration'. He analyzes early modern and early Enlightenment discussions of toleration; debates over toleration for Jews and Muslims as well as for Christians; the limits of toleration for the intolerant, atheists, 'libertines' and 'sodomites'; and the complex relationships between intolerance and resistance theories including Locke's own Treatises.

776 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

John Marshall is professor of history (early modern Europe, with emphasis on British and intellectual history) at Johns Hopkins University.