... in the mouth of a spokesperson whose authority could hardly be surpassed, Milton aligns himself firmly with Augustine and other Christian theologians who questioned classical magnanimity and emphasized humility. But at other places in both his poetry and prose, Milton comes close to suggesting human ethical...

...Michael Schoenfeldt © by Duke University Press 2001 a “That spectacle of too much weight”: The Poetics of Sacrifice in Donne, Herbert, and Milton...

... particular attention to poetic treatments of the mortal soul in Lucretius, Marlowe, Milton, and Dryden. Duke University Press 2010 a Dead Souls and Modern Minds? Mortalism and the Early...

...Astrid Giugni This essay analyzes the treatment of temperance in Milton’s early entertainment, A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle , within the context of the history of virtue ethics. It argues that Milton combines Aristotle’s version of temperance with Plato’s epistemology. In the masque...

... Goodman, John Milton, John Wesley). There is evidence of a parallel development in scientific circles, as practitioners like Robert Boyle reflected on the necessary role of implicit faith in the collective production of knowledge, a project to which the ideal image of the self-determining individual...

...- ductions, but what he himself hath given forth. Those that will be wise above what is written may hug their philosophical clouds, but let them take heed they find not themselves without God in the world, adoring figments of their own brains, instead of the living and true God.2 While Milton declares...

... Waltham, Massachusetts Behind and surrounding the Puritan reformer Milton’s bathetically surre- alistic scene of fallen angels depicted as busy little bees at the end of Book I of Paradise Lost, there stretches, as always, a history: in this case a braided history of apiology, political science...

... of the Geneva Bible, now in the Bodle- ian Library, or John Milton’s quarto edition of the King James Bible of 1612, now at the British Library, were marked by public figures who were both 416  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 47.3 / 2017 readers and writers, at times giving us clues...

... the educated elite to compartmentalize their conceptual worlds. Clas- sical accounts of the cardinal virtues were not related integrally to Christian teachings about sin and grace, and it became natural to think of virtue as independent achievement. Stephen Fallon’s essay, “Milton and Literary...

... in David Aers, Versions of Election: From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020), 164–65. 49 Thomas Washbourne, Divine Poems (London, 1654), 133. 50 As Green notes, “the clergy do in many areas appear to have been able to abandon...

... and runs through such points as Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623), Herbert’s The Temple (1633), Donne’s Poems (both 1633 and 1635), and Humphrey Moseley’s publications of the 1640s and 1650s, especially Milton’s Poems (1645).3 This linear history of books...

... Milton’s Civil War – era pamphlets, and the father of the 374  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 47.2 / 2017 Figure 3. Bedfordshire plate from John Norden’s England: An Intended Guyde for English Travailers (London, 1625). Folger Shakespeare Library, 18605. Author photo...

... of) the transmarine offences of Oldenbarnevelt at the Globe, the Southwark stage that could become any place in the world. Meditations on perseverance recur again and again in English theological poetics, from Spenser's tale of Sir Guyon in The Faerie Queene to Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained...

... strands of political theol- ogy and ecclesiology that challenged the magisterial reformation throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Anabaptists, Mennonites, Brown- ists, Baptists — ­and on to John Milton. Further evidence of the continuity of thought with regard to the significance...

... Aers, Versions of Election: From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020), ix–xvii. For two very different but brilliant diachronic studies, with reflections on their own historiographical and interpretive practices, see James Simpson...

... Simpson, “Brad Gregory's Unintended Revelations,” 545–54. 14 See Anthony Milton, Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600–1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995); and Michael C. Questier, Conversion, Politics, and Religion in England...

... of 1526 in its original spelling, translated from the Greek.] 202 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 32.1 / 2002 2. Reference Bradford, Richard. The Complete Critical Guide to John Milton. The Com- plete Critical Guide to English Literature (series). London: Routledge, 2001. xv, 215 pp...

... texts with facing-page translations of the lives of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, those of Socrates and Seneca, and excerpts from On Famous men of Great Age and Against the Jews and the Gentiles.] 228 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 34.1 / 2004 Milton, John. John Milton...

... . Translated by Milton T. Walsh. Cistercian Studies Series, vol. 284. Athens, Ohio: Cistercian Publications; Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2022. 816 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Maestlin, Michael. Michael Maestlin's Manuscript Treatise on the Comet of 1618: An Edition and Translation of Manuscript WLB...

....”  TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009. viii, 113 pp. Paper $13.00. Milton, John. The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume 2: The 1671 Poems “Paradise Regain’d” and “Samson Agonistes.”  Edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers. Oxford: Oxford...