| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 307 pages) |
| Contents |
New histories of atheism / David Wootton -- Unbelief and atheism in Italy, 1500-1700 / Nicholas Davidson -- Pierre Charron's Șcandalous book' / Tullio Gregory -- The ̀Christian atheism' of Thomas Hobbes / Richard Tuck -- The charge of atheism and the language of radical speculation, 1640-1660 / Nigel Smith -- Jewish anti-Christian arguments as a source of irreligion from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century / Richard H. Popkin -- The first edition of the Traite ́des trois imposteurs and its debt to Spinoza's Ethics / Silvia Berti -- Àikenhead the atheist': The context and consequences of articulate irreligion in the late seventeenth century / Michael Hunter -- Disclaimers as offence mechanisms in Charles Blount and John Toland / David Berman -- The atheism of d'Holbach and Naigeon / Alan Charles Kors |
| Summary |
The rise of atheism and unbelief is a key factor in the development of the modern world, yet it has been relatively little explored by historians. This book presents a series of studies of irreligious ideas in various parts of Europe during the two centuries following the Reformation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Atheism -- Europe -- History
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Atheism
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hunter, Michael, 1949-
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Wootton, David, 1952-
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