The Reception of Bodin

Preface......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 13
Chapter One The History and Theory of Reception......Page 33
Chapter Two On Bodin’s Method......Page 51
Chapter Three The Experiential World of Jean Bodin......Page 79
Chapter Four Listening to Witches: Bodin’s Use of Confession in De la Démonomanie des Sorciers......Page 109
Chapter Five Bodin's Reception of Johann Weyer in De la Démonomanie des Sorciers......Page 129
Chapter Six Authorial Strategies in Jean Bodin......Page 149
Chapter Seven Bodin in the Netherlands......Page 169
Chapter Eight Reading from the Margins: Some Insights into the Early Reception of Bodin’s Methodus......Page 205
Chapter Nine The Works of Bodin under the Lens of Roman Theologians and Inquisitors......Page 231
Chapter Ten Bodin’s Démonomanie in the German Vernacular......Page 249
Chapter Eleven Making the Canon? The Early Reception of the République in Castilian Political Thought......Page 269
Chapter Twelve The Reception of Bodin in the Holy Roman Empire and the Making of the Territorial State......Page 305
Chapter Thirteen Sovereignty and Reason of State: Bodin, Botero, Richelieu and Hobbes......Page 335
Chapter Fourteen The Italian “Readers” of Bodin, 17th–18th Centuries: Readers of Bodin in Italy—from Albergati to Filangieri......Page 355
Chapter Fifteen The Italian “Readers” of Bodin, 17th–18th Centuries: The Italian “Readers” out of Italy—Alberico Gentili (1552–1608)......Page 383
Chapter Sixteen Bodin in the English Revolution......Page 399
Conclusion......Page 421
Consolidated Bibliography......Page 429
Index......Page 465