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Making toleration : the repealers and the Glorious Revolution / Scott Sowerby.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard historical studies ; v. 181.Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (404 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674075917
  • 0674075919
  • 0674075935
  • 9780674075931
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making toleration.DDC classification:
  • 274.107 23
LOC classification:
  • BR757 .S65 2013eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Forming a movement: James and the repealers -- Writing a new Magna carta: the ideology of repeal -- Fearing the unknown : anti-popery and its limits -- Taking sides: the three questions survey -- Seizing control : the repealers in the towns -- Countering a movement : the Seven Bishops trial -- Dividing a nation : the geography of repeal -- Dancing in a ditch : anti-popery and the revolution -- Enacting toleration : the repealers and the Enlightenment.
Subject: "In the reign of James II, minority groups from across the religious spectrum, led by the Quaker William Penn, rallied together under the Catholic King James in an effort to bring religious toleration to England. Known as repealers, these reformers aimed to convince Parliament to repeal laws that penalized worshippers who failed to conform to the doctrines of the Church of England. Although the movement was destroyed by the Glorious Revolution, it profoundly influenced the post-revolutionary settlement, helping to develop the ideals of tolerance that would define the European Enlightenment ..."--Book jacket flap
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)520762

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forming a movement: James and the repealers -- Writing a new Magna carta: the ideology of repeal -- Fearing the unknown : anti-popery and its limits -- Taking sides: the three questions survey -- Seizing control : the repealers in the towns -- Countering a movement : the Seven Bishops trial -- Dividing a nation : the geography of repeal -- Dancing in a ditch : anti-popery and the revolution -- Enacting toleration : the repealers and the Enlightenment.

Print version record.

"In the reign of James II, minority groups from across the religious spectrum, led by the Quaker William Penn, rallied together under the Catholic King James in an effort to bring religious toleration to England. Known as repealers, these reformers aimed to convince Parliament to repeal laws that penalized worshippers who failed to conform to the doctrines of the Church of England. Although the movement was destroyed by the Glorious Revolution, it profoundly influenced the post-revolutionary settlement, helping to develop the ideals of tolerance that would define the European Enlightenment ..."--Book jacket flap

In English.