Jean Charles Bodin

On Sovereignty: Four Chapters from the Six Books of the Commonwealth

On Sovereignty: Four Chapters from the Six Books of the Commonwealth

Englands View in the Unmasking of Two Paradoxes

The Six Bookes of a Commonweale

Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime: Colloquium Heptaplomeres De Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis

Selected Writings on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics

Expose Du Droit Universel: Juris Universi Distributio

De Magorum Daemonomania

Jean Bodin

Jean Bodin (15301596) was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. ...

Bodin: On Sovereignty (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

This volume contains the essential points of Jean Bodin's theory of sovereignty, a landmark in legal theory and royalist ideology. The four chapters presented form the core of Bodin's classic work, Six Livres de la Republique. Bodin was primarily responsible for introducing the seductive but erroneo...

Six Books of the Commonwealth

Jean Bodin and the Rise of Absolutist Theory (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)

The St Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 polarised French constitutional ideas. Appearing on one side was a radicalised version of the French constitution. On the other side was the theory of royal absolutism systematically developed by Bodin. The central thesis of this book is that Bodin's absolut...

Colloquium of the Seven About Secrets of the Sublime

Jean Bodin (1530–1596), renowned for his powerful intellect and breadth of knowledge, was truly a renaissance man. His works on political and legal thought set him apart as one of the most brilliant minds of the period. Although he is perhaps less known for his writing on religious questions of his ...

Jean Bodin on Sovereignty: With some Reference to the Doctrine of Thomas Hobbes

First published in 1896 in the Political Science Quarterly the prominent political scholar and historian William Dunning (1857-1922) provides an introduction of the French Political philosopher Jean Bodin's thesis on sovereignty. In the essay Dunning suggests that Hobbes' own philosophy of the State...

On the Demon-Mania of Witches (Renaissance and Reformation Texts in Translation, No. 7)

Jean Bodin's On the Demon-Mania of Witches (De la démonomanie des sorciers) was published in 1580 and quickly became one of the most widely read and translated works on witchcraft in Europe. Bodin (1529/30-1596), a lawyer and scholar, was greatly admired by his contemporaries. His works on politics,...

Jean Bodin and Sixteenth-Century Revolution in Methodology of Law and History

This book shows how the philosophy of Jean Bodin and other Frenchmen led to a change in intellectual authority of Roman Law.

De la République: Traité de Jean Bodin, ou Traité du gouvernement. Revu sur l'édition latine de Francfort 1591 chez les associés Jean Wechel & Pierre Fischer (French Edition)

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1756 edition by la Veuve Quillau, Londres.