"Shows how Milton, Hobbes, and other seventeenth-century English writers used expectation of the world's end to invent new and radical ideas of the nation"-- Milton and the faithful remnant : locating the nation in the early poetry -- Postponing the...
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"Shows how Milton, Hobbes, and other seventeenth-century English writers used expectation of the world's end to invent new and radical ideas of the nation"-- Milton and the faithful remnant : locating the nation in the early poetry -- Postponing the Last Judgment : biblical sovereignty and political messianism in Hobbes's Leviathan -- Turning swords into plowshares : Diggers, Ranters, and radical eschatologies of class revolution -- The fire and the scythe : hermeticism, husbandry, and Welsh politics in the works of Thomas and Henry Vaughan -- The trial of Charles I and the redemption of fallen community in Milton's Paradise lost.
