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  • Index

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  • Abdiel, 30

  • Abel, 123

  • Achinstein, Sharon, 286–87

  • Acts and Monuments (Foxe), 329n56

  • Adam: Apocalypse and, 95; death and, 123, 124–25, 126–27, 147n29, 183; gardening by, 208–10, 213–15; history and, 319–20; Jesus as, 47; marriage and, 49–50, 51–52; in Oryx and Crake (Atwood), 130; other worlds and, 141; permitted choice and, 158–60; Raphael and, 31–33; rational freedom and, 171–75; rib of, 49–50; in Twain, vii, viii; vocative and, 31–39

  • Adams, Robert M., 226n11

  • address, direct. See vocative

  • Ad vitellionem paralipomena (Kepler), 236

  • Aeneid (Virgil), 79, 304

  • Aeschylus, 92

  • Agamemnon, 92, 111n69

  • agape, 204, 214–15

  • agency: death and, 203, 215–23; despair and, 219; life and, 208–15

  • Alcestis (Euripides), 88, 89

  • Allegro, L’ (Milton), 306, 310

  • Allestree, Richard, 274, 276, 281

  • Andrewes, Lancelot, 159

  • Anglican church, 66

  • Anglicanism, 275, 276–83, 284

  • Annunciation, 39. See also Mary

  • Antaeus, 77, 78, 89–90, 107n34

  • Apocalypse, 95, 128

  • Apollonius, 80, 105n20

  • Apology against a Pamphlet, An (Milton), 302

  • Apotheosis of Hercules (Tiepolo), 86

  • Aquinas, Thomas, 156–57, 188, 243, 266n2

  • Areopagitica (Milton): automata in, 137; Erasmus and, 179; freedom and, 163, 164, 179; piety in, 63, 64, 65; reading in, 48, 58

  • Argonautica (Apollonius), 80

  • Ariosto, Ludovico, 141, 302

  • Aristophanes, 79, 88

  • Aristotle: epic and, 304; freedom and, 154–56, 164–66, 169, 172, 180, 184, 187, 188, 195n54; vision in, 267n3

  • Arminianism, 155, 190n9, 278, 283–84, 296n23

  • Arminius, Jacobus, 157

  • Ars logicae (Milton), 154, 155, 188

  • Ars moriendi, 205–06

  • Ars poetica (Horace), 163

  • art, in Plato, 260–62

  • Arthuriad, 302, 305

  • astronomy, 167–68

  • “At a Solemn Music” (Milton), 5, 15

  • Athens, 92–93, 93–94, 109n49

  • attention, vocatives and, 26–31 [End Page 331]

  • Atwood, Margaret, 116–17, 145n6, 146n22. See also Blind Assassin, The; MaddAddam; Oryx and Crake; Year of the Flood, The

  • Auerbach, Erich, 328n50

  • Augustine, 13, 155, 177–79, 236, 243; history in, 320; Neoplatonism in, 326n18; vision in, 268n15

  • Aulus Gellius, 170

  • authority, of God, 8–9

  • Bandinelli, Baccio, 78–79, 82, 107n34

  • Barker, Arthur, 75, 111n63

  • Barstow, Marjorie, 43n22

  • Bayly, Lewis, 280

  • Becon, Thomas, 280

  • Beelzebub, 22–24, 216, 220, 221–22

  • Belial, 26, 220

  • Benét, Stephen Vincent, 7

  • Bible: Colossians, 19; Daniel, 323; Deuteronomy, 60, 111n61; 1 Corinthians, 34, 122; 1 John, 164, 216; 1 Timothy, 189; Genesis, 37, 49, 50, 119, 122, 162, 173, 180, 184, 320; Hebrews, 177; Isaiah, 22; Job, 305; John, 27, 53, 56; Luke, 42n20, 60, 329n58; Matthew, 49, 60, 329n58; Psalms, 9 60; relation in, 49–50; Romans, 53; Titus, 274, 278, 279, 281; translations of “freely” in, 159

  • Blake, William, 313

  • Blazing World, The (Cavendish), 144n4

  • Blind Assassin, The (Atwood), 144n5

  • blindness, 234, 246–48, 250–51, 253–56

  • Boethius, 157–58

  • boredom, 203–04

  • Braden, Gordon, 90

  • Brady, Maura, 263

  • Broadbent, J. B., 41n7

  • Brutus, 95

  • Bryson, Michael, 11, 18, 65, 72n48

  • Buber, Martin, 17, 22

  • Bush, Douglas, 22

  • Busse, Beatrix, 19

  • Cadmus, 92, 94

  • Calvinism, 155, 279

  • camera obscura, 235–39, 238, 239–46, 242, 267n3

  • Camōes, Luís de, 319

  • Canavan, Gerry, 132

  • Carraci, Annibale, 79, 83

    Carter, Stephen, 6

  • Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety, The, 273, 292

  • Cavendish, Margaret, 144n4

  • Chambers, A. B., 266n2

  • Chaos, 207–08, 225n11

  • children, 134–35

  • chivalry, 302

  • choice: in Aristotle, 154; in Ars logicae, 155; avoiding bad, 167–71; Fall and, 187–88; and freedom, 158–71; permitted, 158–60

  • Choice of Hercules, The (Carraci), 83

  • Christ. See Jesus chronos, 323

  • Cicero, 164, 168, 177

  • City of God (Augustine), 155, 160, 177

  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 295n12

  • comparison, textual, 48–49

  • Comus (Milton), 315, 322

  • Conformists, 274–75

  • consilium, 154–55

  • Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius), 157–58

  • contemplation, 28

  • Conventicle Act, 65–66

  • Copeland, Rita, 13

  • Corns, Thomas, 326n23–24

  • Cottingham, John, 244–45

  • Cranach, Hans, 85

  • Creation, 31, 157, 305

  • Creon, 91, 107n38

  • Crombie, A. C., 254

  • Dalila, 98, 99, 101

  • Dante, 94, 141

  • darkness. See vision

  • David, 89, 96, 107n34

  • Davis, J. C., 133

  • De anima (Aristotle), 156

  • death: Adam and, 123, 124–27, 147n29, 183; agency and, 203, 215–23; boredom and, 203; Chaos and, 207–08...

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