Milton: Political WritingsCambridge University Press, 21/02/1991 - 279 من الصفحات 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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الصفحة xix
... reply centres on two absolutist propositions ; that the people are not the origin of kingly power , which derives directly from God ; and that the king is legibus solutus ( i.e. , above all positive laws ) , and therefore accountable to ...
... reply centres on two absolutist propositions ; that the people are not the origin of kingly power , which derives directly from God ; and that the king is legibus solutus ( i.e. , above all positive laws ) , and therefore accountable to ...
الصفحة xxii
... reply to the claim that nothing corresponding to the regicide can be found anywhere in Jewish history , he reproduces his discussion of Ehud and Eglon and concludes that ' If Ehud slaughtered Eglon justly , we have justly punished ...
... reply to the claim that nothing corresponding to the regicide can be found anywhere in Jewish history , he reproduces his discussion of Ehud and Eglon and concludes that ' If Ehud slaughtered Eglon justly , we have justly punished ...
الصفحة xxvii
... reply to Salmasius . 1651 February : Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio published ( 24th ) . March : acts as licenser ( 17th ) for Mercurius Pragmaticus ( until the following January ) . 1652 February : first of a series of personal ...
... reply to Salmasius . 1651 February : Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio published ( 24th ) . March : acts as licenser ( 17th ) for Mercurius Pragmaticus ( until the following January ) . 1652 February : first of a series of personal ...
الصفحة xxviii
... reply to Pierre du Moulin's Regii sanguinis clamor ( 1652 ) which he said he was ordered to make though there is no official record . 1655 April : his salary is reduced to a life pension and he is allowed a substitute in the ...
... reply to Pierre du Moulin's Regii sanguinis clamor ( 1652 ) which he said he was ordered to make though there is no official record . 1655 April : his salary is reduced to a life pension and he is allowed a substitute in the ...
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عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
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