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Title: Eikon Basilike
Condition: New
Format: Paperback
Subtitle: with selections from Eikonoklastes
EAN: 9781551115948
ISBN: 9781551115948
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Release Date: 30/11/2005
Description: Published just after the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Eikon Basilike is a defence of the king's motivations and actions prior to and during the British civil wars. Nine chapters of Eikonoklastes, John Milton’s response to Eikon Basilike, are also included in this edition. Here Milton, writing from a republican perspective, attacks the substance and style of the King's Book. These fascinating texts are now available in an edition that also includes a rich selection of historical documents.

This Broadview edition's critical introduction discusses the publication history and both seventeenth-century and current debates regarding the work and its authorship, while the appendices provide a generous selection of contemporary responses to Eikon Basilike and accounts of the king's trial and scaffold speech.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: CA
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Width: 17mm
Item Weight: 380g
Author: John Milton
Contributor: Holly Faith Nelson (Edited by), Jim Daems (Edited by)
Genre: History
Book Series: Broadview Editions
Release Year: 2005

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