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This dissertation presents a normative intellectual history of the development of religious toleration in the Latin West. In the Middle Ages, canon lawyers and theologians provided biblical justifications for tolerating unbelievers within their societies. During the crusades, ho…

At the heart of modern liberalism is an ideal of religious equality, according to which religious minorities should be granted the same civil and political rights as the religious majority. So basic is this ideal to modern liberalism that liberals often take it for granted. This…