LEADER 03314nam 22006375 450 001 9910162714203321 005 20210111214723.0 010 $a0-226-43527-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226435275 035 $a(CKB)3710000001032925 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001639620 035 $a(DE-B1597)523539 035 $a(OCoLC)970659213 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226435275 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4786328 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001032925 100 $a20191022d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Legal Epic $e"Paradise Lost" and the Early Modern Law /$fAlison A. Chapman 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-226-43513-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tOn Texts -- $t1. Introduction -- $t2. Law and Religion in Milton's World -- $t3. The Traitors of Heaven and Earth -- $t4. The Arch-Felon -- $t5. The Sole Propriety of Adam and Eve -- $t6. Acts of Possession -- $t7. The Mortal Sentence -- $t8. Begging Pardon -- $t9. Conclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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 is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton at the center 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. Throughout Paradise Lost, Milton invites his readers to judge actions using not only reason and conscience but also core principles of early modern jurisprudence. Law thus informs Milton's attempt to "justify the ways of God to men" and points readers toward the types of legal justice that should prevail on earth. Adding to the growing interest in the cultural history of law, The Legal Epic shows that England's preeminent epic poem is also a sustained reflection on the role law plays in human society. 606 $aLaw in literature 606 $aReligion and law 606 $aLaw and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 610 $aJohn Milton. 610 $aParadise Lost. 610 $aRomano-canon law. 610 $acommon law. 610 $aearly modern England. 610 $ajurisprudence. 610 $ajustice. 610 $alaw. 610 $anatural Law. 610 $apositivist. 610 $areligion. 615 0$aLaw in literature. 615 0$aReligion and law. 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 676 $a821.4 700 $aChapman$b Alison A., $0292902 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162714203321 996 $aThe Legal Epic$91989262 997 $aUNINA