Presents detailed case-studies of the expression of atheistic opinion in early modern England and Scotland.

This book examines the reception of the works of the Baron d'Holbach throughout Francophone Europe. It insists that d'Holbach's historical importance has been u

Atheists generated widespread anxieties between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. In response to such anxieties a distinct genre of religious apologetics e

How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secula

‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a w