The Religious Retinue of Leicester House: Chaplains of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1729-51

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• 作者：J. C. Lees
• 刊名：Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：40
• 期：1
• 页码：89-109
• 全文大小：257K
• ISSN：1754-0208

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This prosopographical study of the chaplains of Frederick Louis, prince of Wales (1707-51), explores their political, cultural, theological and intellectual significance. It examines their dual allegiance to George II (as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England) and to Leicester House. It advances Frederick's credentials as a significant patron of the British Enlightenment and demonstrates that his clerical patronage made an important contribution to the cultural and intellectual dynamism of his rival court and to his conscious self-fashioning as a connoisseur of the arts and as an enlightened Patriot Prince.