Title Jean Bodin : 'this pre-eminent man of France' : an intellectual biography / Howell A. Lloyd

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 311 pages) Contents I. Angers -- II. Educational pursuits: Paris -- Learning -- Ramus -- Heretic? -- I. -- III. Humanist engagements: Toulouse -- Oppian -- The Oratio -- IV. Law and history: Avocat -- The Juris universi distributio -- The Lettre a Bautru -- The Methodus -- V. Getting and spending: Financial Prospects and Career Concerns -- Money -- The Debate with Malestroit -- Polish Constitutionalists and French Monarchomachs -- VI. Republique: Context -- Editions and Sources -- Structure and Themes -- The Private Sphere -- Citizen, Sovereignty, and State -- Magistrates and Government -- Religion, Justice, and Harmony -- VII. Estates and demons: Academie and King -- The Blois Estates, 1576, and the Aftermath -- The Demonomanie Context and Content -- The Démonomanie: Critique -- VIII. Propositum meum retardarunt: Foreign Ventures and Professional Pursuits -- Laon and the League -- Pedagogy -- IX. Vita contemplativa: A Shift of Focus -- The Theatrum -- The Paradoxon -- X. Coda: Colloquium: Authorship and Background -- Mode of Exposition -- The Quest for Common Ground -- The Stumbling Block -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Identifying Bodin -- Bibliography: Bodin's Works -- Contemporary editions (ordered in title sequence) -- Modern editions (ordered in title sequence) -- Other sources Summary In this intellectual biography, Howell A. Lloyd presents the first rounded treatment of influential sixteenth-century French thinker, Jean Bodin, examining his life and times, his writings (major and minor), and his ideas in their contemporary context, as well as in that of broader intellectual traditions. Jean Bodin was a figure of great importance in European intellectual history, known as a jurist, associate of kings and courtiers in sixteenth-century France, and author of influential works in the fields of constitutional and social thought, historical writing, witchcraft, and a great deal else besides. Best known for his contribution to formulating the modern doctrine of sovereignty, Bodin was a scholar of exceptional range, whose works provoked controversy in his own time and have continued to do so down the centuries. Hugh Trevor-Roper described him as 'the Aristotle, the Montesquieu of the sixteenth century, the prophet of comparative history, of political theory, of the philosophy of law, of the quantitative theory of money, and of so much else' Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-298) and index Subject Bodin, Jean, 1530-1596. SUBJECT Bodin, Jean, 1530-1596 fast Subject Political science -- France -- 16th century -- Biography HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Political science SUBJECT France -- History -- 16th century -- Biography Subject France Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191839962 0191839965 9780192520647 0192520644 9780192520654 0192520652

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