Download or read book Pragmatic Toleration written by Victoria Christman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the case of early-sixteenth-century Antwerp, argues that practices of religious toleration in the Christian West first emerged not as the outgrowth of beliefs about human rights, but as a practical consequence of religious coexistence.