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Context Flashcards

1
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English Civil War date and sides

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-1642-49
-The Royalists supported the King and the Parliamentarians supported Parliament

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Effects of Civil war

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King Charles I was executed and Cromwell took over as ‘Lord Protector’ creating a republic

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Charles II changes

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Restored the monarchy but was eager to achieve a new settlement between the monarchy and Parliament - a mutual though wary respect emerged between the two institutions

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Gender roles

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Woman legally owned by their husbands upon marriage, seen as inferior and in some instances evil

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Catholic view of the fall

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Caused by the devil

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Reformed Protestant view of the fall

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Desired by God in order to make mankind dependent on Christ’s salvation

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Calvinism

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Believed that individual faith gave them access to salvation

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Milton’s arguments about divorce

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Became a pioneer for the right to divorce, arguing that any incompatibility is justified grounds for divorce

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Milton’s views on marriage

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Conversation and mental companionship are important in marriage, and is not necessarily for procreation

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Milton’s relationships

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-Mary Powell
-Katherine Woodcock
-Elizabeth Minshull

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Milton’s religious label

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Highly individual and complex view of Christianity, Presbyterian, Anti-Catholic

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View on religious institutions

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-Opposed them, believed that each individual should be his own church without any establishment to encumber him
-Called for the removal of bishops and priests
-Believed that the individual and his conscience was a more powerful way of interpreting the Word of God than the example set by a church

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Accusations against Charles I

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Insufficiently supportive of the Protestant cause, having Catholic sympathies, sliding the Church into Catholic ritualism

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View on power

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Corrupts humans, distrusted anyone who claimed power over others without proving their right to do so

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Political support

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Supported the rise of Cromwell and the Parliamentarians

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Job for Cromwell

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Secretary of Foreign Tongues, required to justify and support the new Republic with Pamphlets

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Ultimate view on Cromwell

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As unwilling to share power with Parliament, lost confidence and trust in him

18
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View on social hierarchy

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-Beloved in a social hierarchy in which people would obey leaders and leader served people
-Yet he felt that the hierarchy he lived under was corrupt

19
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Judgement based on his blindness

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Contemporaries thought he was punished with blindness for his defence of regicide

20
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The Age of Reason

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A premium was placed on the importance of human reason and on an empirical philosophy that held that knowledge about the world was through the senses and by applying reason to what we take in through our senses

21
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Milton’s grand tour of continental Europe

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1638-9

22
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Aeropagitica

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Freedom of the press pamphlet, against censorship (1644)

23
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Restoration of the Monarchy

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1660

24
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Date when Milton was completely blind

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1652

25
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What was Milton’s family like

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Wealthy, his father disconnected from his family because of religious

26
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Schooling life

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-Extremely studious
-He went to Christ’ College Cambridge
-He had a private tutor

27
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What was Milton’s Doctrine where he voiced his views on marriage called?

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Doctrine of discipline and divorce

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Epithets

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A descriptive term which has a common usage in the poem

29
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Angel that visited Milton

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Urania

30
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Augustine’s theodicy

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Evil is the absence of good, so good is the absence of evil

31
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Terror Incognita

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Unknown territory, fear of female pleasure

Paradise Lost Book IX (11 decks)

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