Tolerantia
A Medieval Concept
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4455556 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Istvan Bejczy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 365 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.1997.0024 |
| OpenAlex | W2066810288 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 7 |
The notion o f tolerance is generally considered a product of modem times and in particular o f the Age o f Reason.1 The enlightened philosophers, who laid the foundations o f liberalism and democracy, are often hailed as the men w ho introduced the notion o f tolerance as a means of guaranteeing maximum freedom to the individual members of society.Writings such as the Epistola de tolerantia o f John Locke and the Traité sur la tolérance o f Voltaire prove in deed that tolerance was an important topic in enlightened thought.Sometimes it is believed that an earlier notion of tolerance can be found, most notably in the writings o f Christian humanists like Erasmus.As a matter o f fact, "Erasmian tolerance" is a standing phrase in the Netherlands, where the people are happy to link the one virtue for which they openly praise themselves with the only Dutch author who is universally known.The Middle Ages, on the other hand, have no reputation for tolerance, the lack o f which is usually attributed to the influence of a powerful Church that w as able and willing to suppress all major deviations from the exclusive truth it w as convinced it possessed.Only the Reformation, it is often argued, forced the Church to change its attitude and to redefine its relation towards dissi dents.2As a consequence, many historical studies of the idea o f tolerance begin on ly in the sixteenth century.3This representation o f the history of tolerance is, however, distorted.In the Middle Ages tolerantia was a highly developed political concept, and it was
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The Symptomatic Self in the Age of Tolerance
Publicity, Privacy, and Religious Toleration in Hobbes's Leviathan
What toleration is not
Liberal Citizenship
An Islamic Language of Toleration
Particularist Universalism
Consequences, Conscience, and Fallibility
The Erasure of the Middle Ages from Anthropology's Intellectual Genealogy
Edge of Enlightenment
Permissive Natural Law and Property
The Phenomenology of Change Beyond Tolerating
John Locke and the State of Toleration
Infidels and Empires in a New World Order
Islam and Democracy in Indonesia
A Defensible Conception of Tolerance in Aquinas?
Cultures of Coexistence in Early Modern England
The “Jew,” the Nation and Assimilation
The Marketplace of the Heart
Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space
Gobernar pese a las conciencias. Roger Williams en la frontera entre agustinismo y liberalismo
Redefining tolerance
La recuperación histórica de Sebastián Castellio en el siglo XX
| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 0,96 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |