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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Type: Exhibition section
Name: VI. Revolution and the Freedom of the Press
Detail: REVOLUTION AND THE FREEDOM OF PRESS: Early in the parliamentary wars against King Charles I, major factions began to emerge among member of the opposition. Parliament was increasingly dominated by extremists who advocated intolerance – sometimes even extreme intolerance – against dissenting opinion and religious beliefs. These strict Presbyterian puritans opposed many of the positions that Milton either held already or would come to hold in the course of the 1640s – among these the freedom to divorce, theological free will, and anti-trinitarianism. In 1643, Parliament passed an “Ordinance for the Regulating of Printing,” which Milton interpreted in Areopagitica as designed to suppress belief. In 1648 the extremism had taken an even more severe form, when Parliament passed an “Ordinance for the Punishing of Blasphemies and Heresies,” and it became illegal to print certain “heresies” – such as those that Milton upheld.
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Name: Manicules in the Rutgers copy of Areopagitica.
Detail: Areopagitica, the most famous of Milton’s prose works, is one of the earliest defenses of the freedom to print, as it is also one of the most important defenses of the freedom of religion. Readers' marks frequently provide a revealing glimpse of the way that early modern readers approached texts.
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