By Stuart Isaacs
Targeting the ancient context within which political theorists have built their considering, this textbook presents a useful advent to scholars of political inspiration. The authors handle a sequence of canonical significant thinkers within the context of 3 world-changing epochs: the English, French and commercial revolutions. The theorists' principles are assessed as regards to the politics in their time and exhibit how they replied to, or interacted with, the political occasions and problems with their day.
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Dent & Son’s Milton’s Prose Writings (1958) offers a good selection of works, including all the major political tracts as well as works on divorce and education. M. Burton. D. Bush’s The Portable Milton (1977) contains a mix of prose and poetry, including Areopagitica and Paradise Lost, plus a useful contextualising introduction. Lois Potter’s A Preface to Milton (1986) is concerned with Milton the poet, but contains a finely detailed contextual introduction to Milton, including discussions of the political scene, common modes of understanding, the geopolitical climate and copious biographical material.
The Cromwellians wanted Parliament to bring the King to account for his actions, at the outset of the conflict and during the war itself. The Presbyterians, however, believed that Parliament’s victory in the civil war had achieved the aim of war by re-establishing Parliament’s authority and ending monarchic flirtation with absolutism. The Presbyterians had no desire to overthrow the monarchy. They were happy to force the Crown to accept terms which gave Parliament more power in general and greater power over religious matters in particular.
Hill, C. (1979) Milton and the English Revolution, London: Faber and Faber. —— (1988) The World Turned Upside Down, London: Peregrine Books. Potter, L. (1986) A Preface to Milton, New York: Longman. Further reading There is a multitude of books available to undergraduates for the study of Milton. Many books concentrate solely on Milton’s poetry and, though some have useful contextualising introductions, you would do best to concentrate on Milton’s prose writings, which contain his overtly political ideas.