Charitable hatred presents a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Instead of charting a path of linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises the complex interplay between these two impulses throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Reformation History at the University of Exeter

1 Introduction
2 Fraternal correction and holy violence: the pursuit of uniformity and the enforcement of religious orthodoxy
3 Godly zeal and furious rage: prejudice, persecution and the populace
4 Living amidst hostility: responses to intolerance
5 Loving one's neighbours: tolerance in principle and practice
6 Coexisting with difference: religious pluralism and confessionalisation
Index