...Stephen M. Fallon In a famous passage, the Son of God in Paradise Regained dismisses classical philosophers for their ignorance of “how man fell” and for their confidence in human sufficiency to attain virtue. “In themselves,” the Son says dismissively, they “seek virtue.” By putting this argument...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Madeline Lesser This article addresses Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder , an epic, twenty-canto retelling of Genesis. Scholars have often considered Hutchinson’s poem an inferior version of Paradise Lost insofar as it does not transgress biblical narrative. Attending...

... of Christ in Milton’s Paradise Regained (1671) to Satan’s temptation of a perfect appre- hension of classical knowledge.1 Christ has just rejected the philosophies of those Satan calls “the sect / Epicurean, and the Stoic severe” (IV.279  –  80), and his dismissal of ancient theories of the soul...

.... It is the common Terme and the pit from whenc we were dug; We all came out of this parsly bed. —John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum Before the garden can be a paradise—Evelyn’s “Inter Solatia humana purissi- mum”—it is a place of crisis, a site of struggle, a battleground.10 As Susan Stewart reminds us...

... from the moral restraints of the law. Released from the taint of original sin, they believed they were reborn into Paradise in this life. Such views were recorded in “Certaine erroneous opinions gathered from the mouth of Mr. Bryerley and some of his hearers.”4 Another document arises...

... 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...

... transition from late medieval to early modern European theology.11 But let us return to the beginning of Bradford’s excursus. Here he recalls telling Joyce Hales that, because the creatures were made for man, they are inseparable from man. When our first parents were expelled from paradise...

... and Experimental Philosophy  123 tal philosophy promotes a properly informed worship of God. Following Bacon’s suggestion that Adam had practiced an experimental philosophy in paradise, Sprat proposes that admiration of the Deity flows naturally from experimental philosophy, for this “was the first service...

... Modern Studies / 38.2 / 2008 numerous smells, including frankincense, clary, musk, cinnamon, grains of paradise, and gillyflowers — a curious blend of biblical, imported Levan- tine and English scents that construct her sexual debauchery and penitence within England’s olfactory landscape...

..., to Babylon and other places. 26 The adapter also includes a little of the start of chapter 16, which offers an overview of the eastern and southern regions of the world, divided by the four rivers of paradise. However, he has clearly read the whole version of the text, for toward the end of the extracts...

... attention to Mary involves a proto- Catholic mode of devotion that Protestant authorities discouraged. In “The Litanie,” Donne certainly had exalted Mary’s role in salvation in ways that could be construed as Catholic: Mary is “That she-Cherubin, / Which unlock’d Paradise”; she is likewise a figure who...

... indicate sin or vice for Milton. Some of the same language reappears in book VII of Paradise Lost, the book describing the creation of the earth by the Son. Comus, however, consumes rather than creates goods. In an ironic turn of phrase, he declares that Nature offers to its children gifts that can...

... by Colette Demaizière. Textes de la Renaissance, vol. 83. 176 pp. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2005. eur 49.00. Dante Alighieri. Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy.” Translated and edited by Mark Musa. Volume 5, Paradise: Italian Text and Verse Translation: 331 pp. Volume 6, Paradise: Commentary: 258 pp...

... Demaizière. Textes de la Renaissance, vol. 83. 176 pp. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2005. eur 49.00. Dante Alighieri. Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy.” Translated and edited by Mark Musa. Volume 5, Paradise: Italian Text and Verse Translation: 331 pp. Volume 6, Paradise: Commentary: 258 pp. Indiana...

... to abstain from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil as the first preach- ing of the Word.34 For Luther, this initial prohibition does not mark off the boundaries of Paradise but is itself the constitutive element of Paradise. In Luther’s reading, this first commandment establishes...

... into paradise if he accepted his sentence without complaint and appealed directly to Christ for mercy. This dual identity of old man and new man, of criminal and convert, shaped the mechanics of comforting and of punishment as they unfolded in the hours leading to execution. Comforters had...

... , however, precedes collapse. Historians including Panofsky and Pächt have tended to date the painting to what has been called Goes's “pre-pathological state.” 21 By nature of its subject matter, the painting exercises its own reckoning with prior and after, cause and effect. Situated in paradise...

... Library, MS Royal 17.C.xxxviii.] McGinnis, Jon, and David C. Reisman, trans. and eds. Classical Arabic Philosophy: An Anthology of Sources. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2007. xxxi, 427 pp. $72.00, paper $25.95. Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Edited by Barbara K. Lewalski. Malden, Mass...

..., “Paradise Restored: The Mechanical Arts from Antiquity 14  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 44.1 / 2014 through the Thirteenth Century,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new. ser. 80, no. 1 (1990): 1 – 169, at 26 – 27. 29 See Pamela H. Smith, The Body...

... Imperial Epic: “Paradise Lost” and the Discourse of Colonialism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996), 17–24. Alongside this, consult the still invaluable work of Ronald H. Bainton, Christian Attitudes to War and Peace (Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 1960), 167–69, as well as his discussion...