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Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries (Paperback)
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Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries (Paperback)
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John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But
his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A.
Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal
ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts between citing Roman,
common, and ecclesiastical law to best suit his purpose in any
given text. This book provides literary scholars with a working
knowledge of the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems in
conflict in seventeenth-century England and brings to light
Milton's use of the various legal systems and vocabularies of the
time-natural versus positive law, for example-and the differences
between them. Surveying Milton's early pamphlets, 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 Donne, Ben Jonson, and John Bunyan-Chapman
reveals the variety and nuance in Milton's juridical toolkit and
his subtle use of competing legal traditions in pursuit of justice.
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