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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... controlling thesis is this : " A partial embracing and employment of republican themes in England was not entirely dependent on a com- plete and dramatic change in the political context . Nor was a fully- fledged republican theory ...
... controlling thesis is this : " A partial embracing and employment of republican themes in England was not entirely dependent on a com- plete and dramatic change in the political context . Nor was a fully- fledged republican theory ...
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... controlling proof texts as Romans 13 : 1-2 , Deuteronomy 17 : 14-17 , and 1 Samuel 8 : 7-18 . This biblical republicanism also depended upon a typological vision of history and political process that distin- guished between the ...
... controlling proof texts as Romans 13 : 1-2 , Deuteronomy 17 : 14-17 , and 1 Samuel 8 : 7-18 . This biblical republicanism also depended upon a typological vision of history and political process that distin- guished between the ...
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... controlling focus in this study is not monolithic in Milton's oeuvre . If Milton began in the 1640s with a vision of the English nation in the vanguard of universal reform , that vision readjusted in the Revolutionary period to ...
... controlling focus in this study is not monolithic in Milton's oeuvre . If Milton began in the 1640s with a vision of the English nation in the vanguard of universal reform , that vision readjusted in the Revolutionary period to ...
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... controlling context of the experience of political defeat , a sub- ject that has been assessed at great length by Milton scholars . As a republican poet living and writing in post - Restoration England , Mil- ton can respond to defeat ...
... controlling context of the experience of political defeat , a sub- ject that has been assessed at great length by Milton scholars . As a republican poet living and writing in post - Restoration England , Mil- ton can respond to defeat ...
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... controlling metaphor of subjection under foreign domination . Where Paradise Regained portrays Israel as a political and cultural space subject to the Roman imperium , Samson Agonistes has Israel under Philistine control . Both Paradise ...
... controlling metaphor of subjection under foreign domination . Where Paradise Regained portrays Israel as a political and cultural space subject to the Roman imperium , Samson Agonistes has Israel under Philistine control . Both Paradise ...
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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John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism Walter S. H. Lim Affichage d'extraits - 2006 |
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