LEADER 03904nam 2200673 450 001 9910456276903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99446-4 010 $a9786611994464 010 $a1-4426-7643-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442676435 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001878 035 $a(OCoLC)431555427 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218962 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000300857 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11226209 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000300857 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10259154 035 $a(PQKB)10866164 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600969 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255057 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671650 035 $a(DE-B1597)464587 035 $a(OCoLC)944178087 035 $a(OCoLC)999371699 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442676435 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671650 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257354 035 $a(OCoLC)958515688 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001878 100 $a20160922h20032003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJohn Selden $emeasures of the Holy Commonwealth in seventeenth-century England /$fReid Barbour 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2003. 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (428 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-8776-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: John Selden and the Measures of a Holy Commonwealth -- $t1. A Scholar's Life: Duty, Scepticism, and Invention -- $t2. Ancient Bards and Inmost Historians -- $t3. Legal Sages and Parliamentary Religion -- $t4. Natural Law and Common Notions -- $t5. The Canons of the Church -- $t6. The Hope of Israel -- $tConclusion: 'Ghostly Authority against the Civill' -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aJohn Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England is the first text in over a century to examine the whole of Selden's works and thought. Reid Barbour brings a new perspective to Selden studies by stressing Selden's strong commitment to a 'religious society,' by taking a closer and more sustained look at his poetic interests, and by systematically examining his Latin publications (particularly those using Jewish sources).Offering critical close readings of Selden's oeuvre, Barbour posits that the overriding aim of Selden's career was to bolster religious society in the face of its imminent demise. He argues that Selden's scholarly career was committed to resolving an essentially religious question about how best to establish the holy commonwealth in both lawfulness and spiritual abundance.Perhaps the greatest strength of Barbour's analysis emerges from his overall interpretation of Selden's corpus within the context of what the author calls a "religious society"; this approach emphasizes the religious commitments of Selden and subverts earlier readings of him as a cynical, skeptical, secular thinker who attacked, rather than upheld, a Judeo-Christian model of society. Engaging in style and substantive in analysis, Barbour's John Selden will add considerably to the limited body of work on this important seventeenth-century savant. 606 $aConstitutional history$zEngland 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1603-1649 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yStuarts, 1603-1714$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aConstitutional history 676 $a942.06/092 700 $aBarbour$b Reid$0930914 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456276903321 996 $aJohn Selden$92472416 997 $aUNINA