Histories of Heresy in Early Modern Europe

Chapter 1 Introduction Histories of Heresy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Chapter 2 “ We are in strange hands, and things are come to a strange passe ” Argument and Rhetoric Against Heresy in Thomas Edwards’s Gangraena [1646]

Chapter 3 Francis Lee and The French Prophets The History of Montanism [1709]

Chapter 5 Hobbes on Heresy

Chapter 6 Between History and Politics Philipp van Limborch’s History of the Inquisition [1692]

Chapter 7 The Public Context of Heresy Bayle, Maimbourg, and Le Clerc

Chapter 8 Histories of Heresy in the Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts

Chapter 9 The Trinity as Heresy Socinian Counter-Histories of Simon Magus, Orpheus, and Cerinthus

Chapter 10 Two Jewish Heresies Spinozism and Sabbatianism

Chapter 11 Heinrich Corrodi’s Critical History of Chiliasm [1781–1783]

Chapter 12 Gibbon and the History of Heresy

Chapter 13 The Enlightened Orthodoxy of the Abbé Pluquet

Chapter 14 Heresy in the Encyclopédie d’Yverdon [1770–1780]

Chapter 15 The Abbé Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier and the History of Heresy