Areopagitica (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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The Work

Milton’s Areopagitica is among the most eloquent protests against prior censorship ever written. Its context lies in the religious politics of seventeenth century England, where the religious cross-currents of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation inflamed passions, as the French Revolution and Soviet communism did in later centuries.

England’s Civil War

The English Civil War began in the summer of 1642 over constitutional and religious issues, pitting Parliament against royalist forces. Fears were rife of religious sectarianism and...

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