Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an inte

Attending to the importance of context and decorum, this major contribution to Ideas in Context recovers a tradition of free speech that has been obscured in st

Historians and literary critics offer a comprehensive thematic assessment of Milton's political and literary career.

This collection of articles in English and German covers a wide range of interdisciplinary topics of historical and modern manifestations of rhetoric in literat