Explores the influence of the early modern historian and statesman John Selden on the thought and works of the poet John Milton.
17 Sir Edward Fry's brief life of Selden in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), an admirable work of its kind, pays elegant lip-service to his subject's 'oriental' researches: 'Their author's familiarity with rabbinical ...
This detailed analysis establishes John Selden as one of the most interesting and important early modern political theorists.
145 D.L. Smith, Constitutional royalism and the search for settlement c.1640–1649 (Cambridge University Press, 1994) pp. 96–97. Five wagon-loads of arms were seized from the Earl of Dorset's house at Knole in 1641, apparently purchased ...
See S. T. Bindoff's chapter " Parliamentary history , 1529-1688 , " in Victoria County History : A History of Wiltshire , ed . ... 1601 , Anonymous proceedings in the House of Commons , 8-13 June 1626 ; and British Library , Harl . MS .
The table-talk of polymath John Selden was first published in 1689; reissued here is an 1847 edition with a biography.
John Selden and His Table-talk