Thomas N. Corns

Milton and the manuscript of "De Doctrina Christiana"

Preface Citations and Abbreviations List of Tables and Figures 1. The controversy 2. The history of the manuscript 3. The making of the manuscript 4. Stylometric analysis 5. The theology of the manuscript 6. The Latin style 7. Conclusions Bibliography The authors

The emergence of Quaker writing : dissenting literature in seventeenth-century England

Patterns of Quaker authorship, 1652-56, Kate Peters the war of the lamb - George Fox and the apocalyptic discourse of revolutionary Quakerism, David Loewenstein Margaret Fell Fox and feminist literary history - a mother in Israel calls to the Jews, Judith Kegan Gardiner hidden things brought to light - enthusiasm and Quaker discourse, Nigel Smith from seeker to finder - the singular experience of Mary Penington, Norman T. Burns handmaids of the Lord and mothers in Israel - early vindications of Quaker womens prophecy, Elaine Hobby no mans copy - the critical problem of Foxs Journal the politic and the polite in Quaker prose - the case of William Penn, N.H. Keeble Joseph Besse and the Quaker culture of suffering, John R. Knott early Quakerism - a historians afterword, Ann Hughes.

Christopher Hill on Milton, Bunyan, and Winstanley

This article considers the impact of Christopher Hills writing on literary criticism, with particular reference to his work on John Milton, John Bunyan, and Gerrard Winstanley, and it traces the informing principles of his later writing to core concepts developed in The World Turned Upside Down, which in turn is contextualized in the radical thought and action of the later 1960s.

“I Have Writ, I Have Acted, I Have Peace”: The Personal and the Political in the Writing of Winstanley and Some Contemporaries

Mid-seventeenth-century radical writers often produced a polemically crafted representation of themselves and their actions as a component of their controversial prose, shaping those images to meet the exigencies of debate or to match the stereotypes of radical martyrology. Winstanley steps outside those common paradigms to engage the more challenging task of exemplifying his radical and heretical theological system from the experiences of the Diggers and of illuminating those experiences by demonstrating their alignment with his theological system and its delineation of the battle between the old red Dragon and the Lamb.

To the Council of State

Access to justice – Two small businesses, located 3 and 5 kilometres away from a planned large scale shopping center, were granted standing in the Council of State to challenge the environmental permit for the establishment that had been issued by the Minister of the environment of the Flemish region. As to the substance of the case, the Council of State suspended of the permit, as the principle of care had been violated in the decision making and the negative impacts of the establishment would be impossible to rectify at a later stage. Environmental Permit – Large scale commercial complex – EIS – Insufficient measures to avoid important traffic problems – Access to Justice – Legal standing – Sufficient interest – Injunctive Relief – Effective Remedy 8. Case summary On administrative appeal, the Minister for the Environment of the Flemish Region granted an environmental permit for the operation of a large scale shopping complex (Uplace) near Brussels Airport. The area was covered by a brownfield agreement between the developer, the Flemish Government, the municipality and the Flemish Waste Management Agency. The Minister for Land Use Planning of the Flemish Region had previously approved a land use plan for the area and granted a building permit. The environmental permit, however, had been denied by the provincial government, due to concerns about traffic congestion. According to the SEA/EIA, the complex would generate almost 50 % increase in traffic on already saturated motorways. The permit applicant argued that because of the expected increase in traffic congestion, people would be more likely to utilize public transportation. Public transportation did not currently exist in the area but was planned for in the brownfield agreement. On appeal, the Minister for the Environment of the Flemish Region found that if all the transportation-related measures described in the brownfield agreement were taken, the traffic situation would be acceptable. Two small businesses subsequently filed a demand for annulment and for suspension of the environmental permit. The Council of State found that the first two requesting parties, located 3 and 5 kilometers away from the planned complex, had a sufficient interest in the case, and therefore standing, because they were likely to be faced with significant changes in traffic density in their vicinities, according to the SEA/EIA-report. The fact that they had not challenged the land use plan or the economic permit did not impact their interest in the case.

Politics and religion

The poets of early modern England, from Donne to Marvell, were deeply engaged and stimulated by the periods political antagonisms and rich diversity of religious experience. Indeed, in their age politics and religion were thoroughly interconnected: as Sir Francis Bacon observed, Matters of religion and the church . . . in these times are become so intermixed with considerations of estate. Since the time of Henry VIIIs Protestant Reformation, which rejected papal authority, the king of England had assumed the supreme headship of the English Church and thus governed both state and church: this was true for the Stuart kings of our literary period - James I (1603-25) and Charles I (1625-49) - whose absolutist power was reinforced by the ecclesiastical hierarchy. As James I succinctly put it, No bishops, no king, no nobility; and his son, Charles I, fully agreed, observing that in the kingdom religion is the only firm foundation of all power. The purpose of this essay, however, is not only to explore the intimate connections between politics and religion as essential background for appreciating earlier seventeenth- century poetry: the aim is to highlight, using select examples from poems of the age, some of the ways its leading poets responded imaginatively to the political conflicts, ideologies, and religious currents of early-modern England up to the tumultuous years of the Civil War and Interregnum, when both the Stuart monarchy and Church of England were disrupted by revolution and Puritan opposition.

The complete prose works of John Milton in retrospect

Complete Prose Works of John Milton. Volume 8:1662–1682. Edited by MAURICE KELLY. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1982. xviii + 625pp. £16.95.