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This work discusses important texts that scrutinize the cult of monarchy in light of the injunction against idolatry. When Milton deplored the "civil kind of idolatry, " he echoed a significant theme in earlier texts -- Erasmus's political writings, Spenser, and Shakespeare's political plays. Milton redefines conquest and fatherhood in response to contemporary monarchists' patriarchalism and conquest-theory.Hardin, Richard F. is the author of 'Civil Idolatry Desacralizing and Monarchy in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton' with ISBN 9780874134261 and ISBN 0874134269.
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