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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... tyrant , and secondly to show ' that they , who of late so much blame Deposing , are the Men that did it themselves ' . To understand why Milton saw these as his main ideological tasks , and to see how they were related , we must turn ...
... tyrant , and secondly to show ' that they , who of late so much blame Deposing , are the Men that did it themselves ' . To understand why Milton saw these as his main ideological tasks , and to see how they were related , we must turn ...
الصفحة xii
... tyrant : the tyrant by practice and the tyrant by usurpation ( or tyrant without title ) . The former case involved them in no new departures ; an otherwise legitimate ruler who degenerates into tyranny , they continue to maintain , can ...
... tyrant : the tyrant by practice and the tyrant by usurpation ( or tyrant without title ) . The former case involved them in no new departures ; an otherwise legitimate ruler who degenerates into tyranny , they continue to maintain , can ...
الصفحة xiii
... tyrant . He begins by rehearsing the arguments conventionally used to offset its alarming potential : that Eglon ... tyrant is itself valid . He can see no material difference between a foreign usurper and a domestic tyrant : ' For look ...
... tyrant . He begins by rehearsing the arguments conventionally used to offset its alarming potential : that Eglon ... tyrant is itself valid . He can see no material difference between a foreign usurper and a domestic tyrant : ' For look ...
الصفحة xiv
... tyrants by the criteria of ' outlandish , or domestic ' must be ' a weak evasion ' ( p . 18 ) . A tyrant was simply someone who had segregated himself from human society and was in consequence to be treated as a ' savage Beast ' , a ...
... tyrants by the criteria of ' outlandish , or domestic ' must be ' a weak evasion ' ( p . 18 ) . A tyrant was simply someone who had segregated himself from human society and was in consequence to be treated as a ' savage Beast ' , a ...
الصفحة xv
... tyrant , his answer is simply to say that ' no man of cleare judgement need goe furder to be guided then by the very principles of nature in him ' ( p . 17 ) . It also left the constitutional theory of resistance ( and hence the ...
... tyrant , his answer is simply to say that ' no man of cleare judgement need goe furder to be guided then by the very principles of nature in him ' ( p . 17 ) . It also left the constitutional theory of resistance ( and hence the ...
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