Milton's Places of Hope: Spiritual and Political Connections of Hope with LandIn early modern culture and in Milton's poetry and prose, this book argues, the concept of hope is intrinsically connected with place and land. Mary Fenton analyzes how Milton sees hope as bound both to the spiritual and the material, the internal self and the external world. Hope, as Fenton demonstrates, comes from commitment to literal places such as the land, ideological places such as the "nation," and sacred, interior places such as the human soul. Drawing on an array of materials from the seventeenth century, including emblems, legal treatises, political pamphlets, and prayer manuals, Fenton sheds light on Milton's ideas about personal and national identity and where people should place their sense of power and responsibility; Milton's politics and where he thought the English nation was and where it should be heading; and finally, Milton's theology and how individuals relate to God. |
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... early modern England was neither new nor innovative . It grew out of the long - standing connections that had been articulated in the earliest western paradigms . Though Old Testament studies have concentrated on the role of God's deeds ...
... early modern England was neither new nor innovative . It grew out of the long - standing connections that had been articulated in the earliest western paradigms . Though Old Testament studies have concentrated on the role of God's deeds ...
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... Early Modern Land Law , Landscape , and Cartography Place was at the center ... England . That is , an English person's identity had for centuries been ... England , and being born in that land meant owing allegiance and loyalty to ...
... Early Modern Land Law , Landscape , and Cartography Place was at the center ... England . That is , an English person's identity had for centuries been ... England , and being born in that land meant owing allegiance and loyalty to ...
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... early modern England was the contest for land , meaning both turf and nation , which had for centuries been under the sole " ownership " of the monarchy . Historians and critics have long debated when the connection between land ...
... early modern England was the contest for land , meaning both turf and nation , which had for centuries been under the sole " ownership " of the monarchy . Historians and critics have long debated when the connection between land ...
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... England : Writing and the Land , Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor surmise that “ in early modern England the cultivated landscape becomes the supreme expression ... early modern cartography and geography indicate how deeply connected.
... England : Writing and the Land , Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor surmise that “ in early modern England the cultivated landscape becomes the supreme expression ... early modern cartography and geography indicate how deeply connected.
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... England's own national identity was with the physical space it occupied and hoped to occupy. As Helgerson has ... early modern England, “'land' and 'country' were so synonymous with 'nation,'” that the nation's hopes for the future were ...
... England's own national identity was with the physical space it occupied and hoped to occupy. As Helgerson has ... early modern England, “'land' and 'country' were so synonymous with 'nation,'” that the nation's hopes for the future were ...
Contents
Hope Land Ownership and the Paradise Within | |
Keeping Irish Hope in its Place Charity Reduction and Reform | |
Place Hope and Prayer | |
Our Father Who Art in Hell Complicating Hope Confiscating Prayer | |
Myself Am Paradise Hope Land and Redemption in Paradise Regaind | |
Index | |
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