Details
Date: Sunday 27 April 2025, 10:00-11:00
Venue: Augustine House | AHg.27
Royalty & Nobility
Tickets: £10/person per event in person
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Professor Kenneth Fincham
Kenneth Fincham is Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent, and he has written a number of books on religion and politics in Britain from Edward VI to William and Mary. Among his publications are Prelate as Pastor: the Episcopate of James I (1990); with Nicholas Tyacke, Altars restored the Changing Face of English Religious Worship 1547 to 1700 (2007) and The Further Correspondence of William Laud (2018). He is currently working on the Restoration of Charles II; the Hampton Court conference of 1604; and a study of the creation of Anglicanism, c.1620-c.1750.
About the event
Charles II is known to have indulged himself with mistresses and merriment, which both titillated and scandalised contemporaries such as Samuel Pepys. This lecture will focus on religious ‘indulgence’ or toleration, which Charles II pursued, with very limited success, between 1660 and 1673.
Why was the king so keen on offering toleration to both Catholics and protestants, especially when it encountered so much opposition: was it an expression of his secret Catholicism or a piece of statecraft to stabilise the country and build up his power within it? Why did so many MPs and Anglicans block his proposals? Did Charles II in fact prepare the way for the more confrontational push for toleration by his brother and successor James II?
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