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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS Patschovsky, Alexander and Harald Zimmerman, editors, Toleranz im Mittelalter. Vorträge und Forschungen, vol. 45 (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1998), 413 pp. DM 128.00 ISBN 3 7995 6645 7. In the English-speaking world, the story of the emergence of tolera- tion has become a fairly standardized narrative of personal and intel- lectual heroism. A few bold defenders of religious and (later) personal liberty stood up to the forces of spiritual and moral authoritarianism, consolidating, in theory, the gains that had been achieved in the prag- matic forbearance of the Reformation. Tolerance is thus ultimately tied to the secularizing, modernizing principles of Enlightenment liberalism as expressed by figures such as John Locke and John Stuart Mill. The triumph of toleration is inseparable from the victory of liberal individ- ualism over the dark powers of collectivism and uniformity. Such a tale, while perhaps invigorating, has long been discredited by continental European scholars for whom the historical sources of toler- ance (intellectual as well as practical) are far too diverse and diffuse to be assimilated to any simplistic account. Instead, toleration is seen to be a phenomenon Catholic as well as Protestant, medieval as well as modern, religious as well http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Early Modern History Brill

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Journal of Early Modern History , Volume 5 (1): 74 – Jan 1, 2001
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© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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BOOK REVIEWS Patschovsky, Alexander and Harald Zimmerman, editors, Toleranz im Mittelalter. Vorträge und Forschungen, vol. 45 (Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1998), 413 pp. DM 128.00 ISBN 3 7995 6645 7. In the English-speaking world, the story of the emergence of tolera- tion has become a fairly standardized narrative of personal and intel- lectual heroism. A few bold defenders of religious and (later) personal liberty stood up to the forces of spiritual and moral authoritarianism, consolidating, in theory, the gains that had been achieved in the prag- matic forbearance of the Reformation. Tolerance is thus ultimately tied to the secularizing, modernizing principles of Enlightenment liberalism as expressed by figures such as John Locke and John Stuart Mill. The triumph of toleration is inseparable from the victory of liberal individ- ualism over the dark powers of collectivism and uniformity. Such a tale, while perhaps invigorating, has long been discredited by continental European scholars for whom the historical sources of toler- ance (intellectual as well as practical) are far too diverse and diffuse to be assimilated to any simplistic account. Instead, toleration is seen to be a phenomenon Catholic as well as Protestant, medieval as well as modern, religious as well

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