Milton and Toleration

Sharon Achinstein is Reader in Renaissance Literature at Oxford University, and author of Literature and Dissent in Milton's England(2003). Her Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (1994) won the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Prize, and she has edited a special issue of Women's Studies on Literature and Gender in the English Revolution (1994), and published numerous essays on Milton, Dryden, women's writing, and cultureand politics in the seventeenth century. She is a consulting editor for the forthcoming Milton Encyclopedia (Yale University Press) and is an editor for Volume VI of The Complete Works of John Milton (under preparation for Oxford University Press).Elizabeth Sauer is Professor of English at Brock University, Canada where she was also awarded a Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence. She has published on early modern English literature and history, Milton, print culture, women's literary history, and the history of imperialism. Her books include Paper-contestations and Textual Communities in England 1640-1675 (2005), Barbarous Dissonance and Images of Voice in Milton's Epics (1996) and 8 editions/co-editions,including Reading Early Modern Women (2004), winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Best Collaborative Work and Milton and the Imperial Vision (1999), winner of the Milton Society of America Irene Samuel Memorial Award.