Milton, Toleration, and Nationhood

Abstract

John Milton lived at a time when English nationalism became entangled with principles and policies of cultural, religious, and ethnic tolerance. Combining political theory with close readings of key texts, this study examines how Milton's polemical and imaginative literature intersects with representations of English Protestant nationhood. Through detailed case studies of Milton's works, Elizabeth Sauer charts the fluctuating narrative of Milton's literary engagements in relation to social, political, and philosophical themes such as ecclesiology, exclusionism, Irish alterity, natural law, disestablishment, geography, and intermarriage. In so doing, Sauer shows the extent to which nationhood and toleration can be subjected to literary and historicist inquiry. Her study makes a salient contribution to Milton studies and to scholarship on early modern literature and the development of the early nation-state.

The Eclipse Java Metamodel - Scaffolding Software Engineering Research on Java Projects with MDE Techniques

“…Though this approach is stated to be much simpler than straight parser logic, it would still entail some programming effort. This technique is similar to what is commonly found in existing Eclipse metrics plug-ins, such as Frank Sauer's metrics tool (Sauer, 2013), using EJM-supplied data. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, we have not been able to find it available online.…”

“…As a first application of the EJMM, we created an open-source M2DM tool for Java, as an Eclipse plug-in (QUASAR, 2013b). The components of this tool are: i) a widely used open-source metrics plug-in for Eclipse produced by Frank Sauer (Sauer, 2013), ii) an OCL compiler embedded in the UMLbased Specification Environment (USE) (Gogolla et al, 2007; Database Systems Group, University of Bremen, 2013), iii) a facade component interface named J-USE, produced within the QUASAR group (QUASAR, 2013a), that provides a Java API for USE services and, finally, iv) a transformation component that goes through EJM and the Java AST and gen-erates EJMM instances by requesting USE services through J-USE. J-USE allows loading UML models or metamodels, instantiate them, evaluate defined OCL constraints (invariants, pre and post-conditions) and execute other OCL expressions as queries over the model or metamodel instances.…”

“…To test the scalability, we ran the M2DM tool upon Java projects of increasing size, comparing the duration of the instantiation process. We chose five different projects as test cases, including three key components of the M2DM plug-in itself: J-USE (QUASAR, 2013a), Frank Sauer's metrics plug-in (Sauer, 2013) and the USE tool (Database Systems Group, University of Bremen, 2013). The remaining two are a widely-used case-study for research purposes, JHot-Draw (Gamma and Eggenschwiler, 2013), and a popular open-source application, SweetHome3D (Puybaret, 2013), which enjoys over one hundred thousand weekly downloads at the time of writing.…”

The Treaty of 1815? Or the Proclamation of the Convention for the Ceylon Settlement Act?

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