John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture: Religious Intolerance and Arguments for Religious Toleration in Early Modern and "Early Enlightenment" Europe

Spanning the fields of intellectual, religious, social, and cultural history, numerous monographs and collections of essays have appeared since the 1980s dealing with aspects of the ideas and practice of religious tolerance and intolerance in various countries and locales during the Middle Ages and early modern era, along with the publication of a few works of more synthetic character.