Richard Popkin's meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle's four Clarifications.
Little progress has been made toward real religious toleration since 1686 when Pierre Bayle penned his Philosophical Commentary which warned of the danger of religious extremism and its political consequences.
" In the book The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, we follow the story of their 12th-century affair, from its chaotic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of enforced secret marriage, to their eventual ...