Review of the hardback: 'A powerful piece of scholarship - brilliantly conceived, breath-taking in scope, and rich in historical insight - it will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars across a range of disciplines (history, religion, political science, philosophy, history of science, literature, and queer studies). a remarkable scholarly accomplishment. Marshall's book is surely destined to become a classic.' Catholic Historical Review
Review of the hardback: 'This is a vast intellectual undertaking, in some measures, comparable to Quentin Skinner's Foundations (1978), which aspires to outline the historical relationship between the theory and practice of religious intolerance and tolerance in Europe after the reformation and before the Enlightenment. Like Skinner's great work, it is committed to a contextual method to explain and understand the thinking of the times.' Journal of British Studies
Review of the hardback: ' this book is a tour de force. Marshall is to be congratulated on an important study that identifies and anatomizes the intellectual history of one of the most significant moments in early modern European history.' H-net.Albion
Review of the hardback: 'Marshall's new text on the toleration debates should become a standard overview of the broad historical background of Locke's writing - both the toleration debates and the rise of the republic of letters.' Eighteenth Century Studies
Review of the hardback: ' in his magisterial tome Marshall undertakes the massive task of describing the intellectual, religious, political, and cultural contexts in which discourses concerning toleration developed in early modern Europe. Marshall has written an important and monumental work. Using works by Quentin Skinner, J. G. A. Pocock, and Jonathan Israel as historiographical models, Marshall seeks to provide, in appropriately Baroque detail, the full weight of arguments for and against toleration from the period of the Reformation to the late seventeenth century.' Sixteenth Century Journal
Review of the hardback: ' an outstanding contribution to the history of religious toleration offers the most comprehensive treatment of the subject in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the early years of the Enlightenment, that now exists.' Church History
Review of the hardback: ' detailed, judicious and rewarding. Any intellectual historian concerned with the social and intellectual framework of toleration in the period, or with the early Enlightenment more broadly, is well served by this magisterial treatment Marshall's scholarship is tremendous Marshall's book opens new and valuable windows on the Early Enlightenment the work is an immense contribution to Lockean and late seventeenth-century scholarship. suberb.' History of Political Thought
