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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... resistance which they had espoused at the start of the Civil War owed much for its development to their own distinguished sixteenth - cen- tury predecessors , John Knox and George Buchanan . Throughout xi Introduction.
... resistance which they had espoused at the start of the Civil War owed much for its development to their own distinguished sixteenth - cen- tury predecessors , John Knox and George Buchanan . Throughout xi Introduction.
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... resistance against the Army and its adherents . This was the distinction - orthodox in Lutheran and Calvinist tracts on resistance between inferior magistrates and private persons : while resistance to tyrannical rule by inferior ...
... resistance against the Army and its adherents . This was the distinction - orthodox in Lutheran and Calvinist tracts on resistance between inferior magistrates and private persons : while resistance to tyrannical rule by inferior ...
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... resistance must cease once the invader has acquired the legitimacy he previously lacked - a teaching they illustrate by reference to the moment during Rome's transition from republic to empire at which lawful resistance turned into ...
... resistance must cease once the invader has acquired the legitimacy he previously lacked - a teaching they illustrate by reference to the moment during Rome's transition from republic to empire at which lawful resistance turned into ...
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... resistance was to be undertaken exclusively by the inferior magistrate . A tyrant by practice was no less liable than a foreign usurper to be punished by a private individual . Milton next turns to consider the remaining objections . By ...
... resistance was to be undertaken exclusively by the inferior magistrate . A tyrant by practice was no less liable than a foreign usurper to be punished by a private individual . Milton next turns to consider the remaining objections . By ...
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... resistance ( and hence the Presbyterians ' case ) in disarray , clearing the way for Milton to secure his ideological objectives . He could now affirm the lawfulness of individual political action and so furnish a defence of the Army's ...
... resistance ( and hence the Presbyterians ' case ) in disarray , clearing the way for Milton to secure his ideological objectives . He could now affirm the lawfulness of individual political action and so furnish a defence of the Army's ...
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