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03386aam a2200361 i 4500 001 D70BD82EEE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 210309s2021 enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2020951204 020 $a 9780192842923 020 $a 0192842927 035 $a (OCoLC)1240772830 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CDX $d OCLCO $d AAA $d RCJ $d SILO 050 4 $a KD621.S45 $b R67 2021 100 1 $a Rosenblatt, Jason Philip, $d 1941- $e author. 245 10 $a John Selden : $b scholar, statesman, advocate for Milton's muse / $c Jason P. Rosenblatt. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a viii, 264 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a The life of John Selden (1584-1654) was both contemplative and active. Seventeenth-century England's most learned person, he was also one of the few survivors who continued in the Long Parliament of the 1640s his vigorous opposition, begun in the 1620s, to abuses of power, whether by Charles I or, later, by the Presbyterian-controlled Westminster Assembly. His gift for finding analogies among different cultures-Greco-Roman, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic-helped to transform both the poetry and prose of the century's greatest poet, John Milton. Regarding family law, the two might have influenced one another. Milton cites Selden, and Selden owned two of Milton's treatises on divorce, published in 1645, both of them presumably acquired while he was writing Uxor Ebraica (1646). 0Selden accepted the non-biblically rabbinic, externally imposed, coercive Adamic/Noachide precepts as universal laws of perpetual obligation, rejecting his predecessor Hugo Grotius' view of natural law as the innate result of right reason. He employed rhetorical strategies in De Jure Naturali et Gentium (The Law of Nature and of Nations) to prepare his readers for what might otherwise have shocked them. Although Selden was very active in the Long Parliament, his only surviving debates from that decade were as a lay member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. The Assembly's scribe left so many gaps that the transcript is sometimes indecipherable. This book fills in the gaps and makes the speeches coherent by finding their contexts in Selden's printed works, both the scholarly, as in the massive De Synedriis, but also in the witty and informal Table Talk. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index. 505 0 $a Synthesizing imaginations: John Seldon and John Milton -- Selden and Milton on the bible -- Selden and Milson on family law -- Making law and recording it: Part 1, John Seldon (and John Milton) on excommunication -- Making law and recording it: Part 2, Seldon's speeches. 600 10 $a Selden, John, $d 1584-1654. 600 10 $a Milton, John, $d 1608-1674 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Selden, John, $d 1584-1654 $x Influence. 600 17 $a Milton, John, $d 1608-1674. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00029106 600 17 $a Selden, John, $d 1584-1654. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00001494 650 7 $a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00972484 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230517010621.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D70BD82EEE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search