Includes bibliographical references and index.

The history and theory of reception / Peter Burke -- On Bodin's method / Marie-Dominique Couzinet -- The experiential world of Jean Bodin / Mark Greengrass -- Listening to witches : Bodin's use of confession in De la d�emonomanie des sorciers / Virginia Krause -- Bodin's reception of Johann Weyer in De la d�emonomanie des sorciers / Christian Martin -- Authorial strategies in Jean Bodin / Ann Blair -- Bodin in the Netherlands / Johannes Machielsen -- Reading from the margins : some insights into the early reception of Bodin's Methodus / Sara Miglietti -- The works of Bodin under the lens of Roman theologians and inquisitors / Michaela Valente -- Bodin's Demonomanie in the German vernacular / Jonathan Schuz -- Making the canon? : the early reception of the republique in Castilian political thought / Harald E. Braun -- The reception of Bodin in the Holy Roman Empire and the making of the territorial state / Robert von Friedeburg -- Sovereignty and reason of state : Bodin, Botero, Richelieu and Hobbes / Luc Foisneau -- The Italian "readers" of Bodin, 17th-18th centuries : readers of Bodin in Italy, from Albergati to Filangieri / Vittor Ivo Comparato -- The Italian "readers" of Bodin, 17th-18th centuries : the Italian "readers" out of Italy-Alberico Gentili (1522-1608) / Diego Quaglioni -- Bodin in the English Revolution / Glenn Burgess.

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