Justin Champion

Republican learning

John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696-1722

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that far from being a marginal and insignificant figure, Toland counted queens, princes and government ministers as his friends and political associates

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780719080494
• ISBN-10: 0719080495
• Artikelnr.: 26248109

Autorenporträt

Justin Champion is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Abbreviations Introduction: locating John Toland Part One:
Republics of Learning 1. "The traffick of books": Libraries, friends and
conversation 2. Publishing reason: John Toland and print and scribal
communities 3. Reading Mystery: the reception of Christianity not
mysterious 1696-1702 Part Two: The war against tyranny and prejudice 4.
Editing the republic: Milton, Harrington and the Williamite Monarchy,
1698-1714 5. Anglia Libera: Protestant liberties and the Hanoverian
succession, 1700-1714 6. Sapere aude: 'Commonwealth' politics under George
I, 1714-1722 Part Three: Subversive Learning 7. Respublica Mosaica:
impostors, legislators and civil religion 8. De studio theologia: patristic
erudition and the attack on scripture 9. "A complete history of
priestcraft": the druids and the origins of ancient virtue Conclusion:
writing enlightenment Index