Book contents
- Milton’s Strenuous Liberty
- Milton’s Strenuous Liberty
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Milton’s Anticlericalism, Part 1
- Chapter 2 Milton’s Anticlericalism, Part 2
- Chapter 3 How Milton Defined Heresy and Why
- Chapter 4 Milton and the Protectorate
- Chapter 5 How the Trouble Starts in Paradise Lost
- Chapter 6 Paradise Regained and the Rejection of the World
- Chapter 7 The Political Messages of Samson Agonistes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - Milton’s Anticlericalism, Part 2
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2025
Book contents
- Milton’s Strenuous Liberty
- Milton’s Strenuous Liberty
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Milton’s Anticlericalism, Part 1
- Chapter 2 Milton’s Anticlericalism, Part 2
- Chapter 3 How Milton Defined Heresy and Why
- Chapter 4 Milton and the Protectorate
- Chapter 5 How the Trouble Starts in Paradise Lost
- Chapter 6 Paradise Regained and the Rejection of the World
- Chapter 7 The Political Messages of Samson Agonistes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 2 continues the previous chapter’s thick description of Milton’s anticlericalism, commencing with The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, and proceeding to the sonnet “Cromwell, our Chief of Men,” Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church, and Paradise Lost. The chapter concludes by discussing the continuity and causes of Milton’s anticlericalism; lastly it situates Milton’s radically anti-institutional view of the church within an ecclesiological divide that extends back to Augustine and the Donatists.
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