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Atheists and atheism before the Enlightenment : the English and Scottish experience / Michael Hunter.

Author/creator Hunter, Michael, 1949- author.
Format Tactile Material, Book, and Print
Publication Info Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Description280 pages
Subject(s)
Contents The problem of "atheism" in early modern England -- Atheism among the godly : the covert history of religious doubt -- 'This degenerate age... so miserably over-run with skepticism and infidelity' : the culture of atheism after 1660 -- 'Aikenhead the atheist' : the context and consequences of articulate irreligion in the late seventeenth century -- An atheist text by Archibald Pitacirne : introduction to Pitcairneana -- The text of Pitcairneana : Houghton Library, Harvard, MS Eng 1114 -- The trial of Tinkler Ducket : atheism and libertinism in eighteenth-century England.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Hunter, Michael, 1949- Atheists and atheism before the Enlightenment Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 9781009268790
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2023008157
ISBN9781009268776
ISBN1009268775
ISBN9781009268769 (paperback)
ISBN1009268767
ISBN(epub)

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