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The Legal Epic
- "Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law
Engelsk Hardback
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The Legal Epic
- "Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law
Engelsk Hardback

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The seventeenth century saw some of the most important legal changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, The Legal Epic is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton at the center of late seventeenth-century legal history. Alison A. Chapman argues that Milton's Paradise Lost sits at the apex of the early modern period's long fascination with law and judicial processes. Milton's world saw law and religion as linked disciplines and thought therefore that in different ways, both law and religion should reflect the will of God. Throughout Paradise Lost, Milton invites his readers to judge actions using not only reason and conscience but also core principles of early modern jurisprudence. Law thus informs Milton's attempt to "justify the ways of God to men" and points readers toward the types of legal justice that should prevail on earth. Adding to the growing interest in the cultural history of law, The Legal Epic shows that England's preeminent epic poem is also a sustained reflection on the role that law plays in human society.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9780226435138
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022643513X
Udg. Dato:
15 feb 2017
Længde:
2mm
Bredde:
16mm
Højde:
23mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
15 feb 2017
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