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03147aam a2200457 i 4500 001 30FE707486E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210317010020 008 200121t20202020ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020001534 020 $a 022672929X 020 $a 9780226729299 020 $a 022672915X 020 $a 9780226729152 035 $a (OCoLC)1137751545 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UPM $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR3592.L3 $b C47 2020 100 1 $a Chapman, Alison A., $e author. 245 10 $a Courts, jurisdictions, and law in John Milton and his contemporaries / $c Alison A. Chapman. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xvi, 214 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Milton, John, $d 1608-1674 $x Law. $x Law. 600 17 $a Milton, John, $d 1608-1674. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029106 650 0 $a English literature $y 17th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Law in literature. 650 0 $a Law and literature $z England. 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Law. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993678 650 7 $a Law and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993913 650 7 $a Law in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00994014 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 648 7 $a 1600-1699 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021511.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=30FE707486E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search