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
Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University
of Leicester. His work on Milton includes a revised edition of W.R.
Parker's two-volume life of Milton (OUP), the entries on Milton and
his circle for the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
editions of Milton's Complete Poems and Complete English Poems
(Everyman), a compilation of the Miltonic life records in A Milton
Chronology (Macmillan), a
collaborative edition of the poems of Edward King (Milton's
Lycidas), and scores of articles in learned journals. In 2005 he
was elected as the Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of
America.
Thomas Corns is Professor of English and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the
University of Wales, Bangor. His work on Milton includes The
Development of Milton's Prose Style (Clarendon, 1982), Milton's
Language (Blackwell, 1990), Uncloistered Virtue (OUP, 1992),
Regaining 'Paradise Lost' (Longman, 1994), John Milton: The Prose
Works (Twayne, 1998), A Companion to Milton (Blackwell, 2001) and
the forthcoming Milton EncyclopediaM (under
preparation for Yale University Press), of which he is
editor-in-chief. He is secretary to the standing committee of the
International Milton Symposium and founder and co-convenor of the
British Milton Seminar. His Companion to Milton won the Irene
Samuel Prize of the
Milton Society of America for books published in 2001, and in 2003
he was elected as the Honored Scholar of the Milton Society of
America.
John Hale was until recently Associate Professor of English at
University of Otago. His work on Milton includes Milton's
Languages: The Impact of Multilingualism on Style (Cambridge
University Press, 1997), an edition and translation of a
substantial selection of Milton's Latin Writings (Medieval and
Renaissance Text Society, 1999), a book on Milton's Cambridge
University education, Milton's Cambridge Latin 1625-1632 (MRTS,
2005), and a collection entitled Milton
as Multilingual: Selected Essays, 1982-2004 (Dunedin: English
Department of the University of Otago), in which Part Five
comprises four new essays on De Doctrina. John Hale has published
widely on Milton's Latin, and is at present
preparing a transcription and translation of the Miltonic De
Doctrina Christiana manuscript for the Oxford edition of the
Complete Works of Milton.
Fiona Tweedie is an independent scholar who has taught in the
Department of Statistics at University of Glasgow and the
Department of Mathematics at University of Edinburgh. She is at
present undertaking a degree in theology. Her work on stylometrics
has long focussed on Milton's Latin, and she has published a number
of seminal articles on author identification.
This book offers a highly scrupulous reconsideration of the history, composition, style, and doctrines of Milton's major theological treatise. It is a significant contribution to Milton studies and to our understanding of seventeenth-century theology. David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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