Courts, Jurisdictions, and Law in John Milton and His Contemporaries

by Alison A. Chapman

Book Overview

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows, Milton's many prose works are saturated in legal ways of thinking, and he also actively shifts between citing Roman, common, and ecclesiastical law to best suit his purpose in any given text. This book provides literary scholars with a working knowledge of the multiple, jostling, real-world legal systems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022672915X
• ISBN13: 9780226729152
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"