Papers presented at a conference in Wassennaar, the Netherlands, in 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / C. Berkvens-Stevelinck , J. Israel , and G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes -- Preface / C. Berkvens-Stevelinck , J. Israel , and G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes -- Adresse du Colloque / Elisabeth Labrousse -- The Intellectual Debate about Toleration in the Dutch Republic / Jonathan Israel -- Limits and Debates: A Comparative View of Dutch Toleration in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries / M.E.H.N. Mout -- Erasmus, Coornhert and the Acceptance of Religious Disunity in the Body Politic: A Low Countries Tradition? / James D. Tracy -- Tolérance et Irénisme / Hans Posthumus Meyjes -- Castellio: Problems of Writing a New Biography / Hans R. Guggisberg -- La Tolérance Entre Politique et Rhétorique / Catherine Secretan -- The Reception of Cassander in the Republic in the Seventeenth Century / Rob van de Schoor -- Daniel Zwicker's views on Religious Peace and Unity / Peter G. Bietenholz -- La Réception de L' Historie der Reformatie de Gerard Brandt et son Influence sur la conception de la Tolérance Hollandaise / Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck -- La Tolérance à Travers les Dictionnaires dans les Décennies Autour de 1700 / Bots Hans and Rob van de Schoor -- The Limits of Toleration in the Early 18th Century: Shaftesbury's Letter Concerning Enthusiasm and the Reactions to it / Heyd Michael -- Èlie Saurin [1639-1703] et ses Réflexions sur les droits de la Conscience / Mario Turchetti -- Les Querelles Lexicales sur la Lice de la Tolérance: Pierre Jurieu Attaqué dans le Dictionnaire Historique et Critique de Pierre Bayle / H.H.M. van Lieshout -- Dimensions de la Coexistence Confessionnelle / Willem Frijhoff -- Note sur la Tolérance dans la Littérature Philosophique Clandestine de L'Âge Classique / Antony McKenna -- La Tolérance Rétrospective: La Perception de L'histoire des Pays-Bas et de L'Angleterre dans le Refuge Huguenot / Myriam Yardeni -- Index of Names and Places / C. Berkvens-Stevelinck , J. Israel , and G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes -- Index of Subjects / C. Berkvens-Stevelinck , J. Israel , and G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes -- Studies in the History of Christian Thought / Editor: Heiko A. Oberman.

This volume is the fruit of the colloquium "Les Pays-Bas, carrefour de la tolérance aux Temps Modernes" , held in Wassenaar, the Netherlands, in 1994. Toleration in the strict sense of the word was very much against the grain of sixteenth-century European history. This volume charts the emergence and vicissitudes of the concept of tolerance and its practical implications in the Dutch Republic, from the revolt against Spain in the sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century. The various contributions, all by distinguished scholars, address such issues as Erasmus' views on toleration, the relation between tolerance and irenism, and the contemporary intellectual debate about toleration in the Dutch Republic. This important volume will prove indispensable to historians of the Low Countries, students of humanism and all those interested in the intellectual history of the 16th-18th centuries.

English, French.

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