Milton's strenuous liberty /

"What motivated John Milton? Amidst his shifting concerns, which ones moved him most deeply? These are the animating questions of Milton's Strenuous Liberty. Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's priorities as a heterodox, godly, lay intellectual, arguing that, at the he...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gregory, Tobias (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
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Table of Contents:
  • Milton's anticlericalism, part 1
  • Milton's anticlericalism, part 2
  • How Milton defined heresy and why
  • Milton and the Protectorate: another look at the evidence
  • How the trouble starts in Paradise lost
  • Paradise regained and the rejection of the world
  • The political messages of Samson Agonistes.