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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... tion of seventeenth - century English republicanism . Defining repub- licanism as " the movement of intellectual protest which opposed the rise of the Renaissance and Baroque monarchies of early modern 13 Introduction.
... tion of seventeenth - century English republicanism . Defining repub- licanism as " the movement of intellectual protest which opposed the rise of the Renaissance and Baroque monarchies of early modern 13 Introduction.
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... tion of biblical and classical republican understandings and expres- sions , seventeenth - century England's imagining of the ideal republic is importantly conditioned by a preoccupation with the central defi- nition of nationhood and ...
... tion of biblical and classical republican understandings and expres- sions , seventeenth - century England's imagining of the ideal republic is importantly conditioned by a preoccupation with the central defi- nition of nationhood and ...
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... tion of the temple of Dagon . Milton's dramatization of the Samson experience facilitates , as Sharon Achinstein has argued , meditation on topics that occupied the thinking of Dissenters in seventeenth- century England : the ...
... tion of the temple of Dagon . Milton's dramatization of the Samson experience facilitates , as Sharon Achinstein has argued , meditation on topics that occupied the thinking of Dissenters in seventeenth- century England : the ...
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... concep- tion of prophetic authority , underwritten by a Reformation tradition built by powerful men , is attended by a general cultural relegation of the woman to the domain of the familial . Positioning INTRODUCTION 27.
... concep- tion of prophetic authority , underwritten by a Reformation tradition built by powerful men , is attended by a general cultural relegation of the woman to the domain of the familial . Positioning INTRODUCTION 27.
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... tion reveal a consuming interest in England as God's holy nation with certain divinely - mandated tasks to fulfill , central to which is the removal of a monarch - turned - tyrant . Given the deep level of his polit- ical involvement in ...
... tion reveal a consuming interest in England as God's holy nation with certain divinely - mandated tasks to fulfill , central to which is the removal of a monarch - turned - tyrant . Given the deep level of his polit- ical involvement in ...
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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