New interest-based language of politics, domestic & foreign, had to be invented in C17 to inoculate policies from confessional imperatives
@BrentSirota Hmm, but even with confessional geopolitics, didn't states give primacy to self interest -- i.e. Cromwell fighting Holland?
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@HeerJeet Commonwealth launched that war, not Protectorate. Overlaid w/ religious and ideological dimensions. 1/2Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Fight was against Orangist Holland, major supporter of both the Stuarts and the anti-Calvinist Remonstrants. 2/2Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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