Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. General Introduction: Political and Historical Myths in the Toleration Literature 1
5. Part I. The Medieval Balance
6. Introduction: Discourses and Contexts of Tolerance in Medieval Europe 13
7. 1. Peter Abelard and the Enigma of Dialogue 25
8. 2. Toleration, Skepticism, and the "Clash of Ideas": Principles of Liberty in the Writings of John of Salisbury 53
9. 3. Ha-Me'iri's Theory of Religious Toleration 71
10. Part II. The Long Sixteenth Century
11. Introduction: The Transformations of the Long Sixteenth Century 95
12. 4. "Heretics be not in all things heretics": Cardinal Pole, His Circle, and the Potential for Toleration 107
13. 5. The Concept of Toleration in the Colloquium Heptaplomeres of Jean Bodin 125
14. 6. Religious Coexistence and Confessional Conflict in the Vier Dörfer: Practices of Toleration in Eastern Switzerland, 1525-1615 145
15. Part III. The Seventeenth Century
16. Introduction: Contexts and Paths to Toleration in the Seventeenth Century 169
17. 7. Samuel von Pufendorf and Toleration 178
18. 8. Baylean Liberalism: Tolerance Requires Nontolerance 197
19. 9. "Religion Set the World at Odds": Deism and the Climate of Religious Tolerance in the Works of Aphra Behn 216
20. 10. Skepticism About Religion and Millenarian Dogmatism: Two Sources of Toleration in the Seventeenth Century 232
21. 11. The Problem of Toleration in the New Israel: Religious Communalism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts 251
22. Index 279
23. Contributors 287