Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvAlison A. Chapman

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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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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-08
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226729152

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A Note on TextsList of AbbreviationsPreface: Making Sense of Many LawsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Defending One’s Good Name: Free Speech in the Early ProseChapter 3: Monstrous Books: Areopagitica and the Problem of LibelChapter 4: Civil Law and Equity in the Divorce TractsChapter 5: Defending Pro Se DefensioChapter 6: The Tithes of War: Paying God Back in Paradise LostChapter 7: “Justice in Thir Own Hands”: Local Courts in the Late ProseAfterword: Justice in the Columbia ManuscriptAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex

"Chapman has written an excellent book, a fit companion for her award-winning Legal Epic. Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law is engaging and informative, economically expressed without sacrificing clarity or detail, and everywhere displaying expert knowledge of early modern law and of Milton’s body of work. With her twin studies, Chapman has secured a place at the fore of recent scholarship on early modern literature and law."