Complete Works of John Milton: Volume VII - Latin Defences

John Milton's Latin Defences are landmark texts in the history of English Civil War and Interregnum polemics. This is the first edition of the Latin Defences to be edited to modern standards of scholarship, together with new facing-page translations into English.

List of contents

• Abbreviations


• Conventions


• Note on Dates


• General Note on the Texts


• Introduction


• THE LATIN DEFENCES: TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS


• Chronology


• Index

About the author

Joad Raymond Wren is a writer and historian of early modern Europe who, before leaving academia, taught at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, East Anglia, Paris-Sorbonne and Queen Mary University of London. His previous books include The Invention of the Newspaper,Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain, Milton's Angels, and, as editor, Making the News, The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660, News Networks in Early Modern Europe, The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe and The Complete Works of John Milton: Latin Defences. He has also written a novel, All the Colours You Cannot Name

Summary

John Milton's Latin Defences are landmark texts in the history of English Civil War and Interregnum polemics. This is the first edition of the Latin Defences to be edited to modern standards of scholarship, together with new facing-page translations into English.

Product details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.07.2025
• EAN: 9780199234530
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923453-0
• No. of pages: 896
• Series: The Complete Works of John Milton
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, HISTORY / Essays, Literary studies: general, Literary essays, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), English Civil War, Civil wars, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800), HISTORY / Military / Civil Wars