Gordon Campbell, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Leicester, Thomas N. Corns, University of Wales, Bangor, John K. Hale, formerly Assistant Professor of English, University of Otago, and Fiona J. Tweedie, Independent Scholar

Winner of the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Award for the most distinguished book on John Milton published in 2007

"This book offers a highly scrupulous reconsideration of the history, composition, style, and doctrines of Milton's major theological treatise. It is a significant contribution to Milton studies and to our understanding of seventeenth-century theology." - David Loewenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"This book is the result of the most thorough investigations of the De Doctrina manuscript even undertaken in Milton studies" - Sarka Kuhnova, Notes and Queries