Argues that far from being a marginal and insignificant figure, Toland counted queens, princes and government ministers as his friends and political associates
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Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: locating John Toland
Part One: Republics of Learning
1. "The traffick of books": Libraries, friends and conversation
2. Publishing reason: John Toland and print and scribal communities
3. Reading Mystery: the reception of Christianity not mysterious 1696-1702
Part Two: The war against tyranny and prejudice
4. Editing the republic: Milton, Harrington and the Williamite Monarchy, 1698-1714
5. Anglia Libera: Protestant liberties and the Hanoverian succession, 1700-1714
6. Sapere aude: 'Commonwealth' politics under George I, 1714-1722
Part Three: Subversive Learning
7. Respublica Mosaica: impostors, legislators and civil religion
8. De studio theologia: patristic erudition and the attack on scripture
9. "A complete history of priestcraft": the druids and the origins of ancient virtue
Conclusion: writing enlightenment
Index
