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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... liberty of unlicensed printing . The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates is no exception . The text of the first edition conforms to the five - part structure of the classical oration laid down by Isocrates and Cicero : exordium ( pp . 3-8 ) ...
... liberty of unlicensed printing . The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates is no exception . The text of the first edition conforms to the five - part structure of the classical oration laid down by Isocrates and Cicero : exordium ( pp . 3-8 ) ...
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... liberty ... and right remaining in them to reassume it to themselves ' ( p . 16 ) . In short , Milton was proposing not a theory of resistance as much as a theory of revolution ( analogous to the way in which a power to punish , which ...
... liberty ... and right remaining in them to reassume it to themselves ' ( p . 16 ) . In short , Milton was proposing not a theory of resistance as much as a theory of revolution ( analogous to the way in which a power to punish , which ...
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... liberty and right of free born Men to be govern'd ' as they wish . And while the people may of course ' reassume ' power if ' it be abus'd ' , they can also simply ' dispose of it by any alteration , as they shall judge most condu- cing ...
... liberty and right of free born Men to be govern'd ' as they wish . And while the people may of course ' reassume ' power if ' it be abus'd ' , they can also simply ' dispose of it by any alteration , as they shall judge most condu- cing ...
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... liberty which is born of it ' ( p . 238 ) . This picture of domestic servitude undermines Salmasius ' credibility as a spokes- man for patriarchalism . It also contributes to a recurrent contrast between his slavish devotion to the ...
... liberty which is born of it ' ( p . 238 ) . This picture of domestic servitude undermines Salmasius ' credibility as a spokes- man for patriarchalism . It also contributes to a recurrent contrast between his slavish devotion to the ...
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... liberty ' , the meaning of which Salmasius has distorted in developing a spurious notion of ' religious obligation ' , and which must now be reconstructed ( pp . 105-6 ) . The political advice of the apostles , for example , should xxi ...
... liberty ' , the meaning of which Salmasius has distorted in developing a spurious notion of ' religious obligation ' , and which must now be reconstructed ( pp . 105-6 ) . The political advice of the apostles , for example , should xxi ...
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