Milton's Strenuous Liberty Gregory Hardback Cambridge University Press

Milton's Strenuous Liberty\n\nA fresh investigation into Milton's deepest motivations, and his concern to maximize liberty of conscience.\n\nTobias Gregory (Author)\n\n9781009561105, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 6 November 2025\n\n238 pages\n22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.501 kg\n\n'Milton's Strenuous Liberty lays out the continuities binding Milton's prose tracts to his mature poetry, yet without either inflating Milton's tactical polemics into republican theorizing or reducing to topical sniping the poems' vision of the abiding principles for which the \""war-faring Christian\"" fights. This is a brilliant, nuanced study. It is also extraordinarily well-written.' Debora Shuger, Distinguished Professor of English, UCLA\n\nWhat motivated John Milton? Amidst his shifting concerns, which ones moved him most deeply? These are the animating questions of Milton's Strenuous Liberty. Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's priorities as a heterodox, godly, lay intell.