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- Summary
- "John Milton is well known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice, which runs throughout his prose works, great and small, is often opaque to us when glimpsed at distance in the twenty-first century. Alison A. Chapman aims to provide literary scholars with a working knowledge of the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century England, and to help us distinguish among Milton's use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the time--natural versus positive law, for example, and the differences among canon, civil, and common jurisprudence, whichever system best suited Milton's purpose. Surveying the early and divorce tracts, late political tracts, and major prose works in comparison with the writings and cases of some of Milton's contemporaries (including George Herbert, John March, Ben Jonson, and John Bunyan), Chapman alerts us to the variety and nuance in Milton's juridical tool-kit and his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 214 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Defending one's good name : free speech in the early prose
- Monstrous books : Areopagitica and the problem of libel
- Civil law and equity in the divorce tracts
- Defending Pro se defensio
- The tithes of war : paying God back in Paradise lost
- "Justice in thir own hands" : local courts in the late prose
- Afterword : justice in the Columbia Manuscript
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- 9780226729152
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- Courts, jurisdictions, and law in John Milton and his contemporaries
- Title
- Courts, jurisdictions, and law in John Milton and his contemporaries
- Statement of responsibility
- Alison A. Chapman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "John Milton is well known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice, which runs throughout his prose works, great and small, is often opaque to us when glimpsed at distance in the twenty-first century. Alison A. Chapman aims to provide literary scholars with a working knowledge of the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in conflict in seventeenth-century England, and to help us distinguish among Milton's use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the time--natural versus positive law, for example, and the differences among canon, civil, and common jurisprudence, whichever system best suited Milton's purpose. Surveying the early and divorce tracts, late political tracts, and major prose works in comparison with the writings and cases of some of Milton's contemporaries (including George Herbert, John March, Ben Jonson, and John Bunyan), Chapman alerts us to the variety and nuance in Milton's juridical tool-kit and his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice"--
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- Chapman, Alison A
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- Literary form
- non fiction
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- bibliography
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- Milton, John
- Milton, John
- English literature
- Law in literature
- Law and literature
- English literature
- Law
- Law and literature
- Law in literature
- England
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- Courts, jurisdictions, and law in John Milton and his contemporaries, Alison A. Chapman
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index
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- Introduction -- Defending one's good name : free speech in the early prose -- Monstrous books : Areopagitica and the problem of libel -- Civil law and equity in the divorce tracts -- Defending Pro se defensio -- The tithes of war : paying God back in Paradise lost -- "Justice in thir own hands" : local courts in the late prose -- Afterword : justice in the Columbia Manuscript
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 214 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226729152
- Lccn
- 2020001534
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- unmediated
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- (OCoLC)1137751545
- Label
- Courts, jurisdictions, and law in John Milton and his contemporaries, Alison A. Chapman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Defending one's good name : free speech in the early prose -- Monstrous books : Areopagitica and the problem of libel -- Civil law and equity in the divorce tracts -- Defending Pro se defensio -- The tithes of war : paying God back in Paradise lost -- "Justice in thir own hands" : local courts in the late prose -- Afterword : justice in the Columbia Manuscript
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 214 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226729152
- Lccn
- 2020001534
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1137751545
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