The Legal Epic: Paradise Lost and the Early Modern Law

by Alison A. Chapman

The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, The Legal Epic is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton at the center of late seventeenth-century legal history.

Alison A. Chapman argues that Milton's Paradise Lost sits at the apex of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022643513X
• ISBN13: 9780226435138
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.6"