Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Howell A. Lloyd -- 1 The History and Theory of Reception / Peter Burke -- 2 On Bodin’s Method / Marie-Dominique Couzinet -- 3 The Experiential World of Jean Bodin / Mark Greengrass -- 4 Listening to Witches: Bodin’s Use of Confession in De la Démonomanie des Sorciers / Virginia Krause -- 5 Bodin’s Reception of Johann Weyer in De la Démonomanie des Sorciers / Christian Martin -- 6 Authorial Strategies in Jean Bodin / Ann Blair -- 7 Bodin in the Netherlands / Jan Machielsen -- 8 Reading from the Margins: Some Insights into the Early Reception of Bodin’s Methodus / Sara Miglietti -- 9 The Works of Bodin under the Lens of Roman Theologians and Inquisitors / Michaela Valente -- 10 Bodin’s Démonomanie in the German Vernacular / Jonathan Schüz -- 11 Making the Canon? The Early Reception of the République in Castilian Political Thought / Harald E. Braun -- 12 The Reception of Bodin in the Holy Roman Empire and the Making of the Territorial State / Robert von Friedeburg -- 13 Sovereignty and Reason of State: Bodin, Botero, Richelieu and Hobbes / Luc Foisneau -- 14 The Italian “Readers” of Bodin, 17th–18th Centuries: Readers of Bodin in Italy—From Albergati to Filangieri / Vittor Ivo Comparato -- 15 The Italian “Readers” of Bodin, 17th–18th Centuries: The Italian “Readers” out of Italy—Alberico Gentili (1522–1608) / Diego Quaglioni -- 16 Bodin in the English Revolution / Glenn Burgess -- Conclusion / Howell A. Lloyd -- Consolidated Bibliography -- Index.

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In The Reception of Bodin an international and interdisciplinary team of seventeen scholars considers one of the most remarkable figures in European intellectual history, the sixteenth-century jurist and philosopher Jean Bodin, as a ‘prismatic agent’ in the transmission of ideas. The subject is approached in the light of reception theory coupled with critical evaluation of key texts as well as features of Bodin’s own career. Bodin is treated as recipient of knowledge gleaned from multifarious sources, and his readers as receivers responding diversely to his work in various contexts and from various standpoints. The volume provides searching insights both into Bodin’s mental world and into processes that served to cross-fertilise European intellectual life from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Contributors include Ann Blair, Harald E. Braun, Glenn Burgess, Peter Burke, Vittor Ivo Comparato, Marie-Dominique Couzinet, Luc Foisneau, Robert von Friedeburg, Mark Greengrass, Virginia Krause, Johannes Machielsen, Christian Martin, Sara Miglietti, Diego Quaglioni, Jonathan Schüz, Michaela Valente.