The Reception of Bodin

Howell A. Lloyd, D.Phil. (Oxford, 1964) is Emeritus Professor of History in the University of Hull, UK. His publications – monographs, edited works and numerous articles, on subjects ranging from Welsh to European history, from social and economic questions to military affairs, state institutions and political ideas – include, as co-editor, European Political Thought, 1450-1700: Religion, Law and Philosophy (Yale UP, 2007).

Preface

List of Contributors


1. Introduction, Howell A. Lloyd

2. The History and Theory of Reception, Peter Burke

3. On Bodin’s Method, Marie-Dominique Couzinet

4. The Experiential World of Jean Bodin, Mark Greengrass

5. Listening to Witches: Bodin’s Use of Confession in De la Démonomanie des Sorciers, Virginia Krause

6. Bodin’s Reception of Johann Weyer in De la Démonomanie des Sorciers, Christian Martin

7. Authorial Strategies in Jean Bodin, Ann Blair

8. Bodin in the Netherlands, Johannes Machielsen

9. Reading from the Margins: Some Insights into the Early Reception of Bodin’s Methodus, Sara Miglietti

10. The Works of Bodin under the Lens of Roman Theologians and Inquisitors, Michaela Valente

11. Bodin’s Démonomanie in the German Vernacular, Jonathan Schüz

12. Making the Canon? The Early Reception of the République in Castilian Political Thought, Harald E. Braun

13. The Reception of Bodin in the Holy Roman Empire and the Making of the Territorial State, Robert Von Friedeburg

14. Sovereignty and Reason of State: Bodin, Botero, Richelieu and Hobbes, Luc Foisneau

15. The Italian Readers of Bodin, 17th-18th centuries
1. Readers of Bodin in Italy: From Albergati to Filangieri, Vittor Ivo Comparato

2. The Italian “Readers” out of Italy: Alberico Gentili, Diego Quaglioni

16. Bodin in the English Revolution, Glenn Burgess

17. Conclusion, Howell A. Lloyd

Consolidated Bibliography

Index