{"title":"Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern Englandby Timothy M.Harrison, Chicago, IL and London: U of Chicago P. 2020. vii + 337 pp. <scp>$30 (paper). ISBN</scp> 13: 9780226725123","authors":"Sarah Hutton","doi":"10.1111/milt.12445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12445","url":null,"abstract":"Milton QuarterlyEarly View REVIEW Coming To: Consciousness and Natality in Early Modern England Timothy M. Harrison, Chicago, IL and London: U of Chicago P. 2020. vii + 337 pp. $30 (paper). ISBN 13: 9780226725123 Sarah Hutton, Corresponding Author Sarah Hutton [email protected] University of YorkSearch for more papers by this author Sarah Hutton, Corresponding Author Sarah Hutton [email protected] University of YorkSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12445Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":42742,"journal":{"name":"MILTON QUARTERLY","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135397475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Networking Print in Shakespeare's England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary ChangeBy BlaineGreteman, Stanford, CA: Stanford <scp>UP</scp>. 2021. xvi + 238 pp. $90.00 (cloth). <scp>ISBN</scp> 13: 9781503615243; $28.00 (paper). <scp>ISBN</scp> 13: 9781503627987","authors":"David Currell","doi":"10.1111/milt.12446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12446","url":null,"abstract":"Milton QuarterlyEarly View REVIEW Networking Print in Shakespeare's England: Influence, Agency, and Revolutionary Change Blaine Greteman, Stanford, CA: Stanford UP. 2021. xvi + 238 pp. $90.00 (cloth). ISBN 13: 9781503615243; $28.00 (paper). ISBN 13: 9781503627987 David Currell, Corresponding Author David Currell [email protected] American University of BeirutSearch for more papers by this author David Currell, Corresponding Author David Currell [email protected] American University of BeirutSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12446Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":42742,"journal":{"name":"MILTON QUARTERLY","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135397318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Madman and the Church Robber: Law and Conflict in Early Modern EnglandBy JasonPeacey, Oxford: Oxford <scp>UP</scp>, 2022. xvi + 307 pp. £35.00 (cloth). <scp>ISBN</scp> 13: 9780192897138","authors":"Ronald Hutton","doi":"10.1111/milt.12447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12447","url":null,"abstract":"Milton QuarterlyEarly View REVIEW The Madman and the Church Robber: Law and Conflict in Early Modern England Jason Peacey, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022. xvi + 307 pp. £35.00 (cloth). ISBN 13: 9780192897138 Ronald Hutton, Corresponding Author Ronald Hutton [email protected] University of BristolSearch for more papers by this author Ronald Hutton, Corresponding Author Ronald Hutton [email protected] University of BristolSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12447Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":42742,"journal":{"name":"MILTON QUARTERLY","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135397317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"John Selden: Soldier, Statesman, Advocate for Milton's MuseBy JasonRosenblatt, Oxford: Oxford <scp>UP</scp>, 2021. viii +264 pp. $90.00 (cloth). <scp>ISBN</scp> 13: 9780192842923","authors":"David Norbrook","doi":"10.1111/milt.12444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12444","url":null,"abstract":"Milton's admiration for John Selden has long been known, but the great scholar's specialized historical and linguistic interests, laid out in rebarbative prose in long Latin texts, are a substantial deterrent to grasping the relations between the two writers. Jason Rosenblatt began this task in his pioneering Torah and Law in Paradise Lost (1994) and in John Selden: Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi (2006). His latest book brings new breadth and depth to the comparison, drawing on some earlier materials but making use of the latest scholarship, including G. W. Toomer's magisterial study of Selden and Chad van Dixhoorn's edition of the Westminster Assembly debates. Rather than adopting the stance of a gatekeeper worried that the profane may not be able to understand the master, Rosenblatt treats Selden with a warmth and enthusiasm that does not preclude some irreverence: those long recapitulations of views can “try a reader's patience, even if they didn't try Selden's” (52), and may make it hard to work out what his own views are. By deploying the particular skills and interests of a literary critic, Rosenblatt engages his readers in the process of exploration. His Introduction outlines the core element of Selden's debt to rabbinical thought: the claim that God gave to Adam—and to all humans regardless of creed—five prohibitive laws and a positive commandment to establish civil laws, with a sixth prohibition, against eating part of a living animal, added after Noah's flood. These laws, based on an arbitrary divine commandment, were to be distinguished from natural law, perceived universally by reason, but they were general enough not to make great demands on religious belief, and were open to local variation. Selden relished exploring the huge variety of laws in different polities and ages, notably on sexuality and abortion. Though he was no cultural relativist, he was aware that his deep interest in both Judaic and other non-Christian laws, and his skepticism about the afterlife, laid him open to orthodox criticism. Though he declared that Christianity was a reformed Judaism, it was not always clear why he thought it needed reform, and he devoted a lot of attention to conversion to Judaism from Christianity. He tended to leave his more controversial views to be reconstructed by the reader, as in the conclusion of his Preface to the De Jure Naturali and Gentium, Juxta Disciplinam Ebraeorum, where he calls for readers who are ready “to venture out, like explorers, beyond their own borders” (20): the tone, as Rosenblatt puts it, is “at once defensive, ironic, challenging, and misleadingly orthodox” (20). Again and again he goes beyond what are normally considered the intellectual horizons of his time. The shifts of tone are more readily apparent in the pithy comments of his Table Talk, which at first sight seem the antithesis of his sprawling major treatises—and whose irreverence on many different topics made it unpublishable in his own time—but as ","PeriodicalId":42742,"journal":{"name":"MILTON QUARTERLY","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135397320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abstracts of Recent Articles","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/milt.12448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12448","url":null,"abstract":"Milton QuarterlyEarly View ABSTRACTS Abstracts of Recent Articles First published: 15 September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/milt.12448Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":42742,"journal":{"name":"MILTON QUARTERLY","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135437105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}