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Author Chapman, Alison A., author.

Title The legal epic : Paradise Lost and the early modern law / Alison A. Chapman.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Law and religion in Milton's world -- The traitors of heaven and earth -- The arch-felon -- The sole propriety of Adam and Eve -- Acts of possession -- The mortal sentence -- Begging pardon -- Conclusion.
Summary The seventeenth century saw some of the most important jurisprudential changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, 'The Legal Epic' situates the great poet and polemicist John Milton at the centre of late seventeenth-century legal history. Alison A. Chapman argues that Milton's 'Paradise Lost' sits at the apex of the early modern period's long fascination with law and judicial processes. Milton's world saw law and religion as linked disciplines and thought therefore that in different ways, both law and religion should reflect the will of God.
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Subject Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Knowledge -- Law.
Milton, John, 1608-1674
Paradise lost (Milton, John)
Law in literature.
Religion and law.
Law and literature -- England.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Law.
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
Religion and law.
England.
Other Form: Print version: Chapman, Alison A. Legal Epic : ""Paradise Lost"" and the Early Modern Law. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2017 9780226435138
ISBN 9780226435275 (electronic bk.)
022643527X (electronic bk.)
9780226435138
022643513X