John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical RepublicanismUniversity of Delaware Press, 2006 - 305 pages In analyzing how Milton reads and appropriates different biblical texts to give shape to his republican vision, this book also assesses his significance to the development of early modern English political thought, his conception of the English nation, and finally, his response to pressures exerted by a secular modernity grounded on international commercial activities."--Jacket. |
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... Old Testament Book of Judges . Chapter 4 reads the fashioning of Milton's prophetic identity in relation to two important women figures of the Revolutionary period — Anna Trapnel , a Fifth Monarchist prophetess , and Lucy Hutchinson , a ...
... Old Testament Book of Judges . Chapter 4 reads the fashioning of Milton's prophetic identity in relation to two important women figures of the Revolutionary period — Anna Trapnel , a Fifth Monarchist prophetess , and Lucy Hutchinson , a ...
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... Old Testament and European history . In order to sustain and reinforce this argument , Ponet must assert that God ordains no tyrant . The obvious difficulty with an argument of this kind is the need to come to grips with the Pauline ...
... Old Testament and European history . In order to sustain and reinforce this argument , Ponet must assert that God ordains no tyrant . The obvious difficulty with an argument of this kind is the need to come to grips with the Pauline ...
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... Old Testament — very much like Milton after him — Ponet will celebrate the grand tradition of Christian mar- tyrs , represented magisterially in John Foxe's anthologization of Protestant resistance to Mary Tudor's heretical tyranny in ...
... Old Testament — very much like Milton after him — Ponet will celebrate the grand tradition of Christian mar- tyrs , represented magisterially in John Foxe's anthologization of Protestant resistance to Mary Tudor's heretical tyranny in ...
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... Old Testament conception of covenant . Hav- ing established himself as the great patriarch of faith in agreeing to yield up the life of his son Isaac at God's command , God articulates the nature of the great covenant , which is ...
... Old Testament conception of covenant . Hav- ing established himself as the great patriarch of faith in agreeing to yield up the life of his son Isaac at God's command , God articulates the nature of the great covenant , which is ...
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Table des matières
30 | |
Authority in the Ideal Republic | 71 |
Nationhood | 126 |
Of Prophets and Politics | 170 |
Internationalism | 211 |
Notes | 255 |
Works Cited | 285 |
299 | |
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absolutist Achinstein ambition Anna Trapnel argues associated authority Balachandra Rajan Book of Judges Caesar Cambridge University Press character Charles China church civil classical classical republican colonial commonwealth conception constitutes contemporary context critique Cromwell Cromwell's cultural David defining discourse divine early modern England early modern English edited emphasis empire engagement English nation English republic epic figure finds Genesis God's Ibid ical idea ideological imperial important India interest invoked Ireland Israel Jesus John Milton John Ponet Judges justice kingdom Kings and Magistrates liberty Lord Lucy Hutchinson ment metaphor Milton Studies Milton's political monarch narrative Old Testament Order and Disorder Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parliament poem polemical Ponet Puritan radical reading reference Reformation relationship Renaissance republican rhetorical Roman Samson Agonistes Satan scripture Second Defence seventeenth-century significance social Spenser spiritual Tenure of Kings theological tion trade Trapnel tyrannicide tyranny tyrant violence virtue vision women writings