Shaftesbury and the Politics of Religion

• Published in: Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury 1621-1683 pp. 127 - 151
• Main Author: Spurr, John
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2011; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Protestant Religion; Superb; Young Man; Charles I; Royal Supremacy; TNA; Commission's Dealings; Denzil Holles; Secretaries Of State; Edward III; Wise; Osborn Shelves; True Protestant; MS 63057B; Exclusion Crisis; Andrew Marvell; Cromwellian Major General; Cooper's Decision; William III; Jesus Christ's Death; Exeter House; Clerical Profession; Charles II's England

Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury, was a giant on the English political scene of the later seventeenth century. Predictably the identification of a prevalent politics of religion' in Restoration England has also provided an opportunity for historians to debate the balance of cont...