Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700

by Alexandra Walsham

Charitable Hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models charting a linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasizes instead the complex interplay between these two impulses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Adrian Salamon · Rating 3 out of 5]

That was tough..

[Ereck · Rating 4 out of 5]

Walsham's thematic organization of the study is wonderfully illuminating as is her insistence on the dialectical relationship between tolerance and persecution. She has a penchant for the long sentence but writes them far more eloquently than most scholars. The book often synthesizes previous historical work-- I was surprised by how often the footnotes refer to scholarship rather than primary sources. The depth of her insight on the subject generally compensates for this.

[LauriAnn · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was not a fast read. I am not a fan of the history of ideas, this was so dry and not compelling.