Milton: Political WritingsCambridge University Press, 21.02.1991 - 279 Seiten John Milton was not only the greatest English Renaissance poet but also devoted twenty years to prose writing in the advancement of religious, civil and political liberties. The height of his public career was as chief propagandist to the Commonwealth regime which came into being following the execution of King Charles I in 1649. The first of the two complete texts in this volume, The Tenure of Kings and the Magistrates, was easily the most radical justification of the regicide at the time. In the second, A Defence of the People of England, Milton undertook to vindicate the Commonwealth's cause to Europe as a whole. They are central to an understanding both of the development of Milton's political thought and the climax of the English Revolution itself. This is the first time that fully annotated versions have been published together in one volume, and incorporates a wholly new translation of the Defence. The introduction outlines the complexity of the ideological landscape which Milton had to negotiate, and in particular the points at which he departed radically from his sixteenth-century predecessors. Further aids to students include a full chronology of Milton's life and events, a select bibliography and biographies of persons mentioned in the text. |
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... authority and person , and this accordingly became the focus of his attack . Much of The Tenure is taken up with exposing this inconsistency . Milton's animus against the Presbyterians is best encapsulated by his repeated allusions to a ...
... authority and person , and this accordingly became the focus of his attack . Much of The Tenure is taken up with exposing this inconsistency . Milton's animus against the Presbyterians is best encapsulated by his repeated allusions to a ...
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... authority was such that they could not be disowned by , yet whose radicalism was now likely to embarrass , their seventeenth- century descendants . What complicates this picture is that the Presbyterians , far from disowning their ...
... authority was such that they could not be disowned by , yet whose radicalism was now likely to embarrass , their seventeenth- century descendants . What complicates this picture is that the Presbyterians , far from disowning their ...
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... authority surpassing even that of the ordinary magistrate . Thus when Milton chooses the story of the slaying of King Eglon by Ehud ( Judges 3. 12-26 ) it is precisely because of the pivotal place it occupied in the controversy over who ...
... authority surpassing even that of the ordinary magistrate . Thus when Milton chooses the story of the slaying of King Eglon by Ehud ( Judges 3. 12-26 ) it is precisely because of the pivotal place it occupied in the controversy over who ...
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... authority to the exclusion of the people . And it followed in turn that the right of deposing and punishing their kings must rest with the people themselves . The second is that Milton's preferred way of expressing the re- lationship ...
... authority to the exclusion of the people . And it followed in turn that the right of deposing and punishing their kings must rest with the people themselves . The second is that Milton's preferred way of expressing the re- lationship ...
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