{"product_id":"john-selden-jason-p-rosenblatt-9780192842923","title":"John Selden: Scholar, Statesman, Advocate for Milton's Muse","description":"The life of John Selden (1584-1654) was both contemplative and active. Seventeenth-century England's most learned person, he was also one of the few survivors who continued in the Long Parliament of the 1640s his vigorous opposition, begun in the 1620s, to abuses of power, whether by Charles I or, later, by the Presbyterian-controlled Westminster Assembly. His gift for finding analogies among different cultures--Greco-Roman, Christian, Jewish, and Islamic--helped to transform both the poetry and prose of the century's greatest poet, John Milton. Regarding family law, the two might have influenced one another. Milton cites Selden, and Selden owned two of Milton's treatises on divorce, published in 1645, both of them presumably acquired while he was writing \u003cem\u003eUxor Ebraica\u003c\/em\u003e (1646). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSelden accepted the non-biblically rabbinic, externally imposed, coercive Adamic\/Noachide precepts as universal laws of perpetual obligation, rejecting his predecessor Hugo Grotius' view of natural law as the innate result of right reason. He employed rhetorical strategies in \u003cem\u003eDe Jure Naturali et Gentium\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Law of Nature and of Nations\u003c\/em\u003e) to prepare his readers for what might otherwise have shocked them. Although Selden was very active in the Long Parliament, his only surviving debates from that decade were as a lay member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. The Assembly's scribe left so many gaps that the transcript is sometimes indecipherable. This book fills in the gaps and makes the speeches coherent by finding their contexts in Selden's printed works, both the scholarly, as in the massive \u003cem\u003eDe Synedriis\u003c\/em\u003e, but also in the witty and informal \u003cem\u003eTable Talk.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason P. Rosenblatt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192842927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192842923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.60h x 9.70w x 1.00d","brand":"Jason P. Rosenblatt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43944624357631,"sku":"9780192842923","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_149dcf0d-10d7-42f3-94aa-c0eff6821a9c.jpg?v=1681504445","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/john-selden-jason-p-rosenblatt-9780192842923","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}