The Complete Works of John Milton: Volume VII: Latin Defences

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Joad Raymond Wren (Retired Professor of Early-Modern English Literature, Retired Professor of Early-Modern English Literature)

The Complete Works of John Milton

Volume VII: Latin Defences

Joad Raymond Wren (Retired Professor of Early-Modern English Literature, Retired Professor of Early-Modern English Literature)

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Oxford University Press
25 September 2025

Literary essays; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; English Civil War

Series: The Complete Works of John Milton

John Milton's Latin Defences are landmark texts in the history of English Civil War and Interregnum polemics. Part of Oxford University Press's authoritative Complete Works of John Milton, this is the first edition of the Latin Defences to be edited to modern standards of scholarship, together with new translations into English which feature in easy to read facing pages. It offers a rich exploration of the publishing history of these works and contextualises them in the political exchanges and republican thought of the mid-seventeenth century. The annotations are especially alert to Milton's controversial engagement with the writings of his adversaries and to his careful alignment of his tracts with the diplomatic objectives of the republican governments of the 1650s.

Volume editor: Joad Raymond Wren (Retired Professor of Early-Modern English Literature Retired Professor of Early-Modern English Literature)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 53mm
Weight: 1.216kg
ISBN: 9780199234530
ISBN 10: 0199234531
Series: The Complete Works of John Milton
Pages: 944
Publication Date: 25 September 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Abbreviations Conventions Note on Dates General Note on the Texts Introduction THE LATIN DEFENCES: TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS Chronology Index

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