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De Doctrina Christiana

PRO SP 9/61

Gordon Campbell / Tom Corns / John Hale / Fiona Tweedie

Project

Title: The provenance of SP 9/61 and its place in the early-modern Protestant exegetical tradition

Summary: The treatise, known as De Doctrina Christiana, has been attributed to John Milton since its rediscovery in 1823, though that attribution was disputed then and is fiercely disputed now. Our intention was to reexamine the manuscript, to place the text in its immediate context of mid-seventeenth-century religious controversy and to tie it more closely to its predecessors than heretofore.

Resources: PRO SP 9/61 on CD ROM (digitized images of the whole manuscript in full colour). Digitized versions of 10 early-modern Protestant exegetical treatises in Latin (precision data capture by Word Pro).

Grant details

Supported by an AHRB Research Grant of £74436 over 4 years.
Award holder: Professor T N Corns
Institution: Bangor University Start of award: 01/JUNE/2000
End of award: 31/MAY/2004

Academic addresses

Professor Gordon Campbell
Department of English
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
United Kingdom

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Dr John Hale
Department of English
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand

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Professor Thomas N Corns
Department of English
Bangor University Bangor
Gwynedd LL57 2DG
United Kingdom

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Dr Fiona Tweedie
School of Mathematics
The University of Edinburgh
James Clerk Maxwell Building
Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road
Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland, UK

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Project administration: Mrs Linda Jones
Department of English, University of Wales Bangor, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2DG, UK
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Links

Milton at Otago maintained by John Hale, English Department, University of Otago
PRO Online Catalogue: State Papers Domestic
Guide to AHRB Research Grants scheme
Word Pro precision data capture (including Latin)

Publications

Milton and De Doctrina Christiana (October 1996)
'The Provenance of De Doctrina Christiana.' Milton Quarterly 31.3 (1997): 67–117.
The provenance of De Doctrina Christiana (June 1998)
Hale, John K. "On translating the De Doctrina Christiana." Milton Quarterly 37.1 (2003): 1-10.

Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns, John K. Hale, Fiona J. Tweedie,
Milton and the Manuscript of De Doctrina Christiana (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2007).

This is the final report of the project. For details, visit
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199296491

Pages maintained by: Linda Jones l.c.jones@bangor.ac.uk