Jean Bodin
In: International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Sovereignty -- 1 Jean Bodin's "Logic of Sovereignty" -- 2 Sovereignty and the Mixed Constitution: Bodin and his Critics -- 3 Bodin's Early Theory of Sovereignty' and 'The Shift to Absolutism' -- 4 Ramist Tendencies in the Thought of Jean Bodin -- Part II Public Law -- 5 Medieval Jurisprudence in Bodin's Concept of Sovereignty -- 6 The Development and Context of Bodin's Method -- 7 Limitations on Absolute Authority -- Part III Political Economy -- 8 Jean Bodin on Taxes: The Sovereignty-Taxes Paradox -- 9 Bodin and Locke on Consent to Taxation: A Brief Note and Observation -- 10 Jean Bodin and the Estates-General of 1576 -- 11 Bodin's Analysis of Inflation -- Part IV Religion -- 12 Introduction: "Religious Views in His [Bodin's] Works" and "The Colloquium Heptaplomeres and the Sixteenth Century" -- 13 Jean Bodin's Daemon and his Conversion to Judaism -- 14 Bodin and Judaism -- 15 Introduction: The Enigma of Bodin's Religion -- 16 Dialogues of Toleration: Erasmus and Bodin -- Part V Natural Philosophy and Method -- 17 Humanist Methods in Natural Philosophy: The Commonplace Book -- 18 Introduction -- Part VI Theories of History -- 19 The Major Themes of the Methodus -- 20 Bodin and the Mediæval Theory of Climate -- Name Index