Milton: Political WritingsCambridge University Press, 21 feb 1991 - 279 páginas 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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... Foreign Tongues . Henceforth Milton was responsible not only for handling much of the Commonwealth's diplomatic correspondence but was also in effect its chief propagandist . The works he published between 1649 and 1651 - Observations ...
... Foreign Tongues . Henceforth Milton was responsible not only for handling much of the Commonwealth's diplomatic correspondence but was also in effect its chief propagandist . The works he published between 1649 and 1651 - Observations ...
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... foreign invader who , since he lacked any title , could be resisted by the private citizen acting in defence of his native institutions . They invariably go on to insist however that such individual resistance must cease once the ...
... foreign invader who , since he lacked any title , could be resisted by the private citizen acting in defence of his native institutions . They invariably go on to insist however that such individual resistance must cease once the ...
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... foreign usurper to be punished by a private individual . Milton next turns to consider the remaining objections . By the logic of his own argument , he must concede that Eglon was an ' enemie ' , since ' what Tyrant is not ? ' But this ...
... foreign usurper to be punished by a private individual . Milton next turns to consider the remaining objections . By the logic of his own argument , he must concede that Eglon was an ' enemie ' , since ' what Tyrant is not ? ' But this ...
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... Foreign Tongues by the Council of State and appointed ( 15th ) . He is ordered ( 26th and 28th ) to ' make some observations ' on John Lilburne's Englands new chains discovered and on papers relat- ing to ' designers against the peace ...
... Foreign Tongues by the Council of State and appointed ( 15th ) . He is ordered ( 26th and 28th ) to ' make some observations ' on John Lilburne's Englands new chains discovered and on papers relat- ing to ' designers against the peace ...
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