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Milton's Strenuous Liberty

By Tobias Gregory

Milton's Strenuous Liberty

By Tobias Gregory

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What motivated John Milton? Amidst his shifting concerns, which ones moved him most deeply? These are the animating questions of Milton's Strenuous Liberty. Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's priorities as a heterodox, godly, lay intellectual, arguing that, at the heart of Milton's public agenda from the early 1640s to the end of his life, there lay a concern to maximize liberty of conscience. In contrast to the republican Milton prevalent in recent scholarship, Gregory presents an anticlerical Milton whose real radicalism lay in his individualistic view of the church. Milton emerges in this study as an eloquent spokesman for unpopular positions, and as a poet who, in his late masterpieces, arrived at a broader perspective on the Puritan revolution, though without ever disavowing it as a dearly-held cause.
Product details
Number of Pages:
238
Release Date:
2025-09-29
Publication Date:
2025-09-29
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009561103
ISBN13:
9781009561105
Weight:
501 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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