Republican learning

Justin Champion is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: locating John TolandPart One: Republics of Learning1. “The traffick of books”: Libraries, friends and conversation2. Publishing reason: John Toland and print and scribal communities3. Reading Mystery: the reception of Christianity not mysterious 1696-1702Part Two: The war against tyranny and prejudice4. Editing the republic: Milton, Harrington and the Williamite Monarchy, 1698-17145. Anglia Libera: Protestant liberties and the Hanoverian succession, 1700-17146. Sapere aude: ‘Commonwealth’ politics under George I, 1714-1722Part Three: Subversive Learning7. Respublica Mosaica: impostors, legislators and civil religion8. De studio theologia: patristic erudition and the attack on scripture9. “A complete history of priestcraft”: the druids and the origins of ancient virtueConclusion: writing enlightenmentIndex

'This is a significant contribution based on extensive new research, and is likely to be the standard account of Toland for many years to come.' Professor David Wootton, Queen Mary, University of London 'Justin Champion's Republican Learning ... manages to be both a scholarly and very readable account of the life and thought of the 17th-18th-century freethinker.' Greg Neil, Editor, BBC History Magazine