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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... Emblems of Hope in the Seventeenth Century So prominent does the connection between hope and land become that by the seventeenth century it appears regularly in the popular emblem books that shaped and represented moral , spiritual ...
... Emblems of Hope in the Seventeenth Century So prominent does the connection between hope and land become that by the seventeenth century it appears regularly in the popular emblem books that shaped and represented moral , spiritual ...
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Spiritual and Political Connections of Hope with Land Mary C. Fenton. These emblems help visually to depict how hope relates to the land . First , the anchor provides the stability that keeps a ship from drifting or getting lost in ...
Spiritual and Political Connections of Hope with Land Mary C. Fenton. These emblems help visually to depict how hope relates to the land . First , the anchor provides the stability that keeps a ship from drifting or getting lost in ...
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... emblems ' characters . * That is , in each emblem , the person stands firm ( steteris ) , and their implements are embedded , as opposed to being suspended or carried . In emblem 16 in book 3 , for instance , with its motto , “ In Spe ...
... emblems ' characters . * That is , in each emblem , the person stands firm ( steteris ) , and their implements are embedded , as opposed to being suspended or carried . In emblem 16 in book 3 , for instance , with its motto , “ In Spe ...
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... Emblem of that Myfery is made : And , this Eftate , wee all continue in , By God's free Mercie , and our proper Sinne . By Sinne , the Labour is on us intail'd By Grace , it is , that Hoping hath not fail'd , And , if in Hope , our ...
... Emblem of that Myfery is made : And , this Eftate , wee all continue in , By God's free Mercie , and our proper Sinne . By Sinne , the Labour is on us intail'd By Grace , it is , that Hoping hath not fail'd , And , if in Hope , our ...
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... Emblem 44 in book 2 of Wither's Emblemes presents another instructive emblem that accentuates the biblical notion that hope looks to the future , to “ things not seen . " This emblem also uses the biblical image of hope as an anchor ...
... Emblem 44 in book 2 of Wither's Emblemes presents another instructive emblem that accentuates the biblical notion that hope looks to the future , to “ things not seen . " This emblem also uses the biblical image of hope as an anchor ...
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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