John Selden (ePub)
Scholar, Statesman, Advocate for Milton's Muse
(Sprache: Englisch)
The life of John Selden (1584-1654) was both contemplative and active. Seventeenth-century England's most learned person, he was also one of the few survivors who continued in the Long Parliament of the 1640s his vigorous opposition, begun in the 1620s, to...
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The life of John Selden (1584-1654) was both contemplative and active. Seventeenth-century England's most learned person, he was also one of the few survivors who continued in the Long Parliament of the 1640s his vigorous opposition, begun in the 1620s, to abuses of power, whether by Charles I or, later, by the Presbyterian-controlled Westminster Assembly. His gift for finding analogies among different cultures-Greco-Roman, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic-helped to
transform both the poetry and prose of the century's greatest poet, John Milton. Regarding family law, the two might have influenced one another. Milton cites Selden, and Selden owned two of Milton's treatises on divorce, published in 1645, both of them presumably acquired while he was writing Uxor
Ebraica (1646).
Selden accepted the non-biblically rabbinic, externally imposed, coercive Adamic/Noachide precepts as universal laws of perpetual obligation, rejecting his predecessor Hugo Grotius' view of natural law as the innate result of right reason. He employed rhetorical strategies in De Jure Naturali et Gentium (The Law of Nature and of Nations) to prepare his readers for what might otherwise have shocked them. Although Selden was very active in the Long Parliament, his only surviving
debates from that decade were as a lay member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. The Assembly's scribe left so many gaps that the transcript is sometimes indecipherable. This book fills in the gaps and makes the speeches coherent by finding their contexts in Selden's printed works, both the scholarly, as in the
massive De Synedriis, but also in the witty and informal Table Talk.
transform both the poetry and prose of the century's greatest poet, John Milton. Regarding family law, the two might have influenced one another. Milton cites Selden, and Selden owned two of Milton's treatises on divorce, published in 1645, both of them presumably acquired while he was writing Uxor
Ebraica (1646).
Selden accepted the non-biblically rabbinic, externally imposed, coercive Adamic/Noachide precepts as universal laws of perpetual obligation, rejecting his predecessor Hugo Grotius' view of natural law as the innate result of right reason. He employed rhetorical strategies in De Jure Naturali et Gentium (The Law of Nature and of Nations) to prepare his readers for what might otherwise have shocked them. Although Selden was very active in the Long Parliament, his only surviving
debates from that decade were as a lay member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. The Assembly's scribe left so many gaps that the transcript is sometimes indecipherable. This book fills in the gaps and makes the speeches coherent by finding their contexts in Selden's printed works, both the scholarly, as in the
massive De Synedriis, but also in the witty and informal Table Talk.
Autoren-Porträt von Jason P. Rosenblatt
Jason P. Rosenblatt, Emeritus Professor of English at Georgetown University, is author of Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden (Oxford, 2006) and Torah and Law in 'Paradise Lost' (Princeton, 1994); editor of Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose (W. W. Norton, 2011); and co-editor of a book on biblical narrative, Not in Heaven (Indiana, 1991). He is editing The Discourse of John Selden, Esq. (Table Talk). He hasheld Guggenheim, Folger Library, and NEH fellowships. A recipient of the Milton Society of America's Hanford and Shawcross awards, he was the Society's Honored Scholar for 2015.
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- Autor: Jason P. Rosenblatt
- 2021, 336 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0192654551
- ISBN-13: 9780192654557
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2021
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