Milton, John. Title page of Colasterion: a reply to a nameles answer against The doctrine and discipline of divorce. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3XG9QQT
Data Life Cycle Event(s) Type: Exhibition Label: John Milton and the Cultures of Print: An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Artifacts Date: 2011-02-03 Detail: February 3 through May 31, 2011. Special Collections and University Archives Gallery, Lower Level, Archibald Stevens Alexander Library. Curator: Fernanda Perrone (Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries)
Curator: Thomas Fulton (Department of English, Rutgers University)
Funder: New Jersey Council for the Humanities Name: John Milton and the Cultures of Print: An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Artifacts
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Name: John Milton and the Cultures of Print: An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, and Other Artifacts
Detail: Published by Rutgers University Libraries in conjunction with the exhibition opening.
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Name: V. The Divorce Tracts
Detail: THE DIVORCE TRACTS: During the civil war period Milton wrote over twenty pamphlets in defense of "three varieties of liberty," as he put it in 1654: "ecclesiastical liberty, domestic or personal liberty, and civil liberty." The five pamphlets on "domestic liberty" -- his so-called divorce tracts -- boldly argued for the liberty to choose a spouse and to choose again if that choice proved in error. His views were called "licentious, new and dangerous," and he was the subject of a Parliamentary inquiry. Contemporaries wanted the books suppressed, which may have contributed to his commitment to the freedom of the press.
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Name: Colasterion: A Reply to a Nameles Answer against The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (London, Printed in the year, 1645)
Detail: In August 1644, Stationers (the publishing guild) asked Parliament to enforce laws against unlicensed pamphlets, and demanded that the Committee on Printing hunt down "the Authors, Printers, and Publishers" of such pamphlets as those "Concerning Divorce." In November 1644, an anonymous (or "nameless") "Answer" to Milton's first divorce tract appeared. This response ("Colasterion" means "punishment") is a sharp rebuke.
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