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Republican learning : John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696-1722 / Justin Champion.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics, culture, and society in early modern BritainPublisher: Manchester ; Manchester University Press ; 2003Distributor: New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003Description: 1 online resource (viii, 264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1417582693
  • 9781417582693
  • 9781847790439
  • 1847790437
  • 0719080495
  • 9780719080494
  • 1781700257
  • 9781781700259
  • 9786610733910
  • 6610733910
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Republican learning.DDC classification:
  • 192 22
LOC classification:
  • B1393.Z7 C47 2003eb
Other classification:
  • 02.01
  • 15.70
  • CF 8740
  • HK 1122
Online resources:
Contents:
Locating John Toland -- 'The traffic of books': libraries, friends and conversation -- Publishing reason: John Toland and print and scribal communities -- Reading Scripture: the reception of Christianity not mysterious, 1696-1702 -- Editing the republic: Milton, Harrington and the Williamite monarchy, 1698-1714 -- Anglia libera: Protestant liberties and the Hanoverian succession, 1700-14 -- Sapere aude: 'commonwealth' politics under George I, 1714-22 -- Respublica mosaica: imposters, legislators and civil religion.
Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction -- Locating John Toland; 1 -- 'The traffic of books': libraries, friends and conversation; 2 -- Publishing reason: John Toland and print and scribal communities; 3 -- Reading Scripture: the reception of Christianity not mysterious, 1696-1702; 4 -- Editing the republic: Milton, Harrington and the Williamite monarchy, 1698-1714; 5 -- Anglia libera: Protestant liberties and the Hanoverian succession, 1700-14; 6 -- Sapere aude: 'commonwealth' politics under George I, 1714-22; 7 -- Respublica mosaica: imposters, legislators and civil religion.
Summary: This work explores the life, thought and political commitments of free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722). Studying both his private archive and published works, it illustrates how Toland moved in both subversive and elite political circles in England and abroad.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index.

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This work explores the life, thought and political commitments of free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722). Studying both his private archive and published works, it illustrates how Toland moved in both subversive and elite political circles in England and abroad.

Locating John Toland -- 'The traffic of books': libraries, friends and conversation -- Publishing reason: John Toland and print and scribal communities -- Reading Scripture: the reception of Christianity not mysterious, 1696-1702 -- Editing the republic: Milton, Harrington and the Williamite monarchy, 1698-1714 -- Anglia libera: Protestant liberties and the Hanoverian succession, 1700-14 -- Sapere aude: 'commonwealth' politics under George I, 1714-22 -- Respublica mosaica: imposters, legislators and civil religion.

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction -- Locating John Toland; 1 -- 'The traffic of books': libraries, friends and conversation; 2 -- Publishing reason: John Toland and print and scribal communities; 3 -- Reading Scripture: the reception of Christianity not mysterious, 1696-1702; 4 -- Editing the republic: Milton, Harrington and the Williamite monarchy, 1698-1714; 5 -- Anglia libera: Protestant liberties and the Hanoverian succession, 1700-14; 6 -- Sapere aude: 'commonwealth' politics under George I, 1714-22; 7 -- Respublica mosaica: imposters, legislators and civil religion.

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